Name that Skill
That is the letter A!
What is alphabet letter recognition?
The first phase of reading that typically goes until 3rd grade (the second phase is called "Reading to Learn")
What is "Learning to Read?"
Books that provide facts versus tell a story
What is informational text? (versus narrative text)
Helper/jobs and attendance charts can be used to encourage this
What is letter/name recognition? Letter matching, letter clue, letter bingo are other ways we can encourage letter discrimination/recognition!
These are print concepts a typical child should have at the end of preschool
What are simple book reading concepts (correct orientation, reading top to bottom and left to right, front to back), recognizing words are made of letters, and identifying frequently seen letters and words?
The letter B makes the /b/ sound
What is sound-letter correspondence or phonological awareness?
Early literacy is not about teaching kids to ____ in preschoool, but prepare them to be ________!
What is READ and READERS?
These types of readings are a great place to start for phonological awareness!
What are predictable text books? Books with rhyming and alliteration, repetition of a basic sentence frame, use of a refrain, cumulative text, etc.
Having kids match items that begin with the same letter sound is an activity that supports this skill
What is phonological/phonemic awareness? The sound in a syllable is called the onset, the rest of the syllable is called the rime!
By the end of preschool, students should be able to do these phonological skills with prompting and support.
What is simple blending and segmenting? (in to syllables, onsite-rime units, and single-syllable words in to phonemes)
That's a strawberry! I eat those!
What is oral language/vocabulary?
The letters in their name (and family member's names)!
What are the letters children typically learn to identify first?
These types of books introduce and teach things like numbers, shapes, body parts, feelings, etc.
What are Concept Books?
Providing the individual sounds that make up a word and letting students identify the word will help build these phonological skills
What is blending and segmenting? Blending is easier than segmenting!
The strands associated with the ELA Early Learning Utah Core Standards (HINT: there are 3)
What is Speaking and Listening, Reading, and Writing?
Two different, but simultaneous, processes in learning to read
Decoding and Comprehension
While children may readily recognize syllables and onset-rime units, the hardest level of phonological awareness is at this level
What is phonemic awareness? (e.g., there are 3 phonemes in the word BAT, and 4 in the word PLATE) But syllable and onset-rime recognition are not prerequisites for phonemic awareness!
This practice when reading predictable texts to children supports higher levels of alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness
What is finger point reading? Children who can finger point read memorized books have higher levels of literacy skills than children who cannot!
Pointing out how print is arranged in a variety of contexts (e.g., books, lists, posters, signs, receipts) supports this skill/knowledge
What is Print Conventions and Functions?
Expectations for preschoolers participation in Shared Group Writing activities
What is recalling and sharing experiences and knowledge? (with prompting at Age 3 and independently at Age 4)
We start reading at the top of the page!
What is Print Conventions or Book Knowledge?
During the preschool years, meaning-making and expression in any form should take precedence over _________.
What is writing? Young children may have fewer opportunities for mark-making than reading prior to preschool and so there may be more variability among children's development.
An evidence-based practice for shared storybook reading to increase literacy skills
What is Dialogic Reading? Evidence-based practices have a specific set of 'active ingredients' that must be included!
Playing the "first letter in your name" AND "first sound in your name" games introduces children to this difficult aspect of the English language
What are irregularities? For example, G can make a /g/ or /j/ sound. Also teachers can introduce diagraphs ('ch,' 'sh,' 'th,' 'wh').
The type of writing expected of a student at age 3 and then at age 4
What are pre-writing strokes (3) and mock writing or scribbling (4)?