Ch 4: Concepts About Print, Letter Recognition, and the Alphabetic Principle (33%)

Question 0

Concepts about print

Answer 0

1) awareness of relationship between spoken word and written language and that is carries meaning
2) letter, word, sentence recognition, differences between the three (word boundaries)
3) directionality of print, ability to track print in connected text left to right and top to bottom (physical tracking)
4) book handling skills, knowing to hold it right side up, elements of the book such as cover, title page, back cover

Question 1

Importance of Marie Clay

Answer 1

A New Zealand educator who coined the term “concepts about print”

Created an assessment to test book orientation, directionality, beginning and end story, word sequence

Question 2

Letter recognition

Answer 2

Identifies both upper and lower case letters when a teacher says it

Clue is auditory from teacher, action is physical pointing from student

Question 3

Letter naming

Answer 3

Reverse of letter recognition

Student says the letter when teacher points to it
Names not sounds

Question 4

Letter formation or production

Answer 4

Student writes upper and lower case letters legibly

Question 5

Environmental print

Answer 5

Printed messages in our every day lives such as billboards, milk cartons, cereal boxes, t shirts, menus, games, etc