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Section Lesson 1
1
Promoting print awareness
Print awareness helps with book awareness (understanding how books work), word
awareness (understanding that letters make words), and letter awareness
(understanding that sounds are represented by letters).
While reading… In the Classroom… At play...
M Ensure students understand book Label classroom objects to Encourage preschoolers to organization,
teaching them basics reinforce print recognition. engage with print through
like reading left to right and top to pretend activities like writing
bottom, recognizing print with Reinforce print conventions shopping lists, creating signs,
accompanying pictures, seen in classroom materials composing letters, or making
understanding page numbering, like signs, labels, posters, cards.
, or during free play.
featuring predictable words. Point
and grasping the purpose of
reading for meaning.
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and calendars.
/ Ensure classroom decor is in centers
Recognize letters in places
er Recognize letters in places outside of books.
Sy Read aloud from books with large, outside of books
easy-to-read print and stories Play with letters of the alphabet
to words to connect spoken and full of print. Have things available like
written language. letter fridge magnets in a play
Incorporate books, letters,
N kitchen.
f Use "big books" to highlight frequently songs, or rhymes in occurring words like "a," "the," "is,"
different parts of the Include letters in art or sensory
"was," and "you." curriculum. activities, like building letters
with clay or finding letters in
Teach and practice print conventions
el a sensory bin.
such as left-to-right directionality,
word boundaries, capitalization,
and punctuation.
M Teach proper book handling and reinforce
book awareness.
Assessing print awareness
possible questions:
Locate the front and back cover of the book
, lOMoAR cPSD| 6861666
Section Lesson 1
1
Promoting print awareness
Print awareness helps with book awareness (understanding how books work), word
awareness (understanding that letters make words), and letter awareness
(understanding that sounds are represented by letters).
While reading… In the Classroom… At play...
M Ensure students understand book Label classroom objects to Encourage preschoolers to organization,
teaching them basics reinforce print recognition. engage with print through
like reading left to right and top to pretend activities like writing
bottom, recognizing print with Reinforce print conventions shopping lists, creating signs,
accompanying pictures, seen in classroom materials composing letters, or making
understanding page numbering, like signs, labels, posters, cards.
, or during free play.
featuring predictable words. Point
and grasping the purpose of
reading for meaning.
l
and calendars.
/ Ensure classroom decor is in centers
Recognize letters in places
er Recognize letters in places outside of books.
Sy Read aloud from books with large, outside of books
easy-to-read print and stories Play with letters of the alphabet
to words to connect spoken and full of print. Have things available like
written language. letter fridge magnets in a play
Incorporate books, letters,
N kitchen.
f Use "big books" to highlight frequently songs, or rhymes in occurring words like "a," "the," "is,"
different parts of the Include letters in art or sensory
"was," and "you." curriculum. activities, like building letters
with clay or finding letters in
Teach and practice print conventions
el a sensory bin.
such as left-to-right directionality,
word boundaries, capitalization,
and punctuation.
M Teach proper book handling and reinforce
book awareness.
Assessing print awareness
possible questions:
Locate the front and back cover of the book
