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Background Information for Teachers
What are Concepts about Print?
Assessing Children's Concepts About Print
Instructional Interventions and Strategies
Including All Students
100
These are a critical part of early literacy development and understanding for young readers.
What is Print Concepts/ Concepts About Print
100
The three main aspects of concepts about print
What are the functional, mapping, and technical aspects
100
Assess students ability to read commonplace/ highly frequent print from their daily environments.
What is Reading Environmental Print
100
The best way to immerse children in language experiences is by having a ______________ classroom environment.
What is "print-rich"
100
This strategy is best suited for ELLs to help them build vocabulary while providing language experiences with words not typically found within the classroom.
What are contextual diagrams
200
A method required by many students to learn concepts about print if they enter school with few experiences with printed text.
What is direct, explicit instruction
200
Refers to the rules and conventions of written language
What is technical aspects of print
200
Assessment based on the idea that the length of a written word and spoken word are related.
What is Mow Motorcycle Task
200
This classroom experience was meant to mimic the experience of lap or bedtime reading and is based on the philosophy "I learn to read by being read to"
What is shared reading
200
A six step strategy that works for English Language Learners as well as native speakers to focus their attention to the words in a text.
What is the drastic strategy
300
reliable predictions of _________ can be made using entering kindergarten students concepts about print scores.
What is end of first grade reading achievement
300
Instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, imaginative, representational, divertive, authoritative/contractual, and perpetuating are all categories that fall under which aspect of print knowledge
What are functions of language/print
300
This assessment is based on error detection tasks in which the child finds and explains a problem in the printed text.
What is Concepts about Print test
300
The use of environmental print in the classroom greatly increases most students reading confidence and __________
What is enjoyment/attitude
300
During this activity the students are asked to take a mental image of a word and correctly record it on paper from memory.
What is "take a picture and write it"
400
This concept precedes acquisition of phonemic segmentation
What is concept of word
400
This skill is believed to develop simultaneously with the ability to map speech sounds onto printed language according to some researchers.
What is phonics knowledge, sound-symbol relationships
400
Demonstrates student understanding of the process of reading and the strategies used to decode words and comprehend text.
What is The Burke Reading Interview
400
This strategy teaches children that words are made up of letters and that we read words and sentences from left to right.
What is letter manipulatives
400
The developer of the strategy used to help students learn to focus carefully on printed words and letters
Who is Patricia Cunningham
500
The percentage of variance in letter name learning can be attributed to concepts about print.
What is 92%
500
Many technical aspects of print are not taught by teachers or parents because they are believed to be _____________ by adults.
What is commonsense
500
Assesses students understanding of instructional/academic language that is used when teaching print concepts.
What is Metalinguistic Interview
500
This strategy is used to teach students that the printed words guide the spoken words of the reader
What is voice pointing
500
According to research these two groups tend to lag behind in acquiring concepts about print.
What is Low SES and Latino children