Print Awareness Flashcards
Print Rich environment
A classroom that has a lot of labels for everything
example: Names of students
Calendar - days and months
Alphabet with pictures of things representing that letter
Any print around the room
Letter naming
teacher points to A on the alphabet and says “What letter is that”
letter formation
letter tracing activities include
tracing letters in sand or playdough
concepts of print include
- book handling schools
- directionality
- concept of a word
- concept of a letter
Book handling skills
- front and back of book
- top and bottom of a page
- title
- title page
- author
- illustrator
directionality
- left page is read before the right
- after page is read - turn the page
- reading left to right
Concept of a letter
- words can be matched by their letter
- 1st word comes before other
- last letter comes after all letters
- words can be counted
- words can be substituted
- some words have capital letters
- sentences end in punctuation
- period means stop
- comma means pause
- questions mean asking voice
Concepts of a word
- words are separated by spaces
- words are made up of letter
- words begin with a particular letter
- words can be short or long
- words can be repeated
print awareness
Children with print awareness can begin to understand that written language is related to oral language. They see that, like spoken language, printed language carries messages and is a source of both enjoyment and information.
Alphabetic Principle
the alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters represent sounds which form words
Word Boundaries
zero width test between two characters
alphabetic language
A written human language in which symbols reflect the pronunciation of the words.
non alphabetic language
The Chinese group of languages do not use alphabets. An alphabet must have consonants and vowels in order to make up words, where as Chinese script consists of logosyllabic characters known as glyphs to denote different sounds, words and even phrases.
pretend reads
when a child pretends to read (pick up a book and start turning pages, and telling a story)
inventive spelling
Inventive spelling refers to the practice of children using incorrect and unusual spellings for words. Typically, inventive spelling is used by students who are just learning to put sounds together to make words.
