Review
Literacy Development
Emergent Readers + Writers – preschool to kindergarten
Beginning readers + writers – kindergarten to beginning 2nd grade
Proficient/fluent readers + writers – 4th and beyond
Emergent Literacy
Beginning
Before children receive formal reading instruction
range of settings and experiences that support literacy development
Includes
learning about reading, writing, and print
constructing meaning of the world
Skill acquisition
Informal
Occurs through individual experiences and adult directed home and school activities
Characteristics:
Notice environmental print
Pretend to read
Use picture clues and predictable patterns to retell a story
Show interest in reading and writing
Write letters and letter-like forms or scribble randomly on a page
Distinguish between reading and writing
Progression of Phonological Awareness
Sound -> Letter -> Meaning
Developing Phonological Awareness
Beginning sound awareness
memory or concentration
Sound-picture sort
Rhyme Awareness
Predict and match rhyming words in poetry
Sound-picture sort
Elkonin Boxes
-with kids, use one set of boxes at a time until they are proficient. Then add the next set
-an example of moving the buttons or paperclips one at a time, one per phoneme/sound
Phonemic Awareness Skills
Segmenting is breaking the whole word into parts and occurs when we separate a word to encode
it
cat -> /c/ /a/ /t/
Blending is combining the sounds of the world together and occurs when we decode a word
/c/ /a/ /t/ -> cat
Deleting is taking away sounds away
Substituting is replacing sounds, replacing o with .i in the word hot to change it to hit
Diverse Learners
Phonological awareness
dependent on vocabulary and oral language
CAP
similarities and differences between languages
Concepts about Print (CAP)
Compenents
COW – concept of a word (1-2 words, first/last word)
Concept of a letter (capital/lowercase, 1 letter, name of a letter, how to form letters)
Directionality (left to right, top to bottom)
Book concepts (title, front/back)
Reading concepts (1:1, print carries meaning)
Punctuation
How to teach CAP
morning message
interactive writing
shared reading, language experience approach (LEA)
Read Alouds
Concepts about the Alphabet
What is it?
Identifying letter name (upper and lowercase)
identifying letter sound individually and then in combos
writing
How to teach it?
alphabet books
magnetic letters
alphabet charts, songs
picture sorts, letter sorts, word sorts
Alphabetic Principle
Associating letters with sounds and sounds with letters
Ways to sound out phonetically pure words
Inventive spelling reveals a child’s letter sound knowledge
Inventing spelling – spelling words with letters based on how it sounds
