Concepts of Print
When teaching children about concepts of print it is important to teach students about book concepts, spatial concepts, and conventions:
Book Concepts
What is important:
What is important:
What is important:
Further Websites
http://www.idealcurriculum.com/concepts-about-print.html - this site outlines what should be taught in regards to concepts of print and provides helpful tips to help develop concept of print in the three stages – awareness and exploration, experimental print concepts, and early concepts about print.
http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/impaticas/concepts--print-script.pdf - this site outlines a popular assessment developed by Marie Clay on concepts of print.
In my classroom
In order to teach students and further support the struggling readers in my classroom I will make use of various engaging and authentic activities and reading experiences through:
Book Concepts
What is important:
- What is a sentence
- What is a word
- What is a letter
- Spaces between words
- One spoken word equals one written word
- Word-by-word pointing
- Practice finding these concepts in lots of different books.
- Model how to frame them between two fingers (one on each hand).
- Then let the children find and frame the different concepts.
What is important:
- First/middle/last. This concept of ordering can be applied to many things: pages, words in a sentence, letters in a word, and so forth.
- Top/middle/bottom
- Right/left
- Model and practice these skills.
- Explicitly practice these spacial concepts. It is easy to assume that children understand them because they are so prevalent in what we say and do, but they are often a source of confusion in their specific meanings.
- Play "Hokey Pokey" with left/right concept.
- Play Simon Says with top/middle/bottom.
What is important:
- Upper case/lower case letters
- Punctuation: period, question mark, comma, exclamation mark, quotation marks
- Point them out in books. Find books that show a lot of one type of punctuation.
- Frame the punctuation marks or letters with two fingers.
- Model how to use these conventions in writing. Assist the children in using these in their own writing.
Further Websites
http://www.idealcurriculum.com/concepts-about-print.html - this site outlines what should be taught in regards to concepts of print and provides helpful tips to help develop concept of print in the three stages – awareness and exploration, experimental print concepts, and early concepts about print.
http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/impaticas/concepts--print-script.pdf - this site outlines a popular assessment developed by Marie Clay on concepts of print.
In my classroom
In order to teach students and further support the struggling readers in my classroom I will make use of various engaging and authentic activities and reading experiences through:
- Sharing books together
- Pointing out printed language in various places and explaining its purpose (i.e., signs in the store)
- Engaging students in experiences that use printed language, such as creating a letter for someone
- Involving the students in reading for real purposes throughout the day, e.g. recipes, instructions, email, maps, etc.
- Helping students notice known letters, such as the first letter in his or her name, in print all around
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