What are six important guidelines that you might advise a new teacher to follow when reading to the children?

A new student to a classroom of 4-year-olds recently arrived from Honduras and speaks virtually no English. Although he listens to and watches everything going on around him, he says nothing for days. Is this fairly normal behavior for a child in his situation? What strategies should his teacher pursue in helping him.
You have been asked to set up a language and literacy (language arts) center in a pre-K classroom. Using paper and colored pens, pencils, or markers, design the learning center. What criteria will you use? Think about how this center will relate to the other learning centers in the classroom. How does this language arts center support the emergent reading and writing development of the children?
You are opening a new child care center and need to order books to go in classrooms for children of different ages. Identify specific sources you would use to select quality books. What would you look for when deciding whether or not a particular book would be appropriate for children?
Any adult can read aloud, but reading aloud to children involves special preparation and skills. What are six important guidelines that you might advise a new teacher to follow when reading to the children?
Reflect on what you should consider when choosing a book to read aloud to a group of young children. Select three books you would like to read to a class of kindergarten or primary age children. Why did you select these specifically?
How would you answer a parent who asked, “Of what possible value could a book be to an infant? She can’t read or even understand what the pictures are about. Shouldn’t you wait to expose her to books when she is older?” How would you go about explaining to the parent why infants should be exposed or introduced to books? How would you encourage the parent to do the same?

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