Vocabulary
Word Wall
Collection of words displayed in large letters on a wall.
How does print have a function?
First words a child says, reads, and writes are those with meaning, purpose, and function.
Common practice for teaching the alphabet.
Teach one letter a week.
Using print
Print is essential in helping students recognize letters and begin to figure out words.
Big Books
Enlarged versions of text that allows an educator to implement shared reading.
What is forms of print?
Details about names, sounds, and configurations of letters and words.
Explicit instruction of the alphabet.
Explicit learning is needed for letter identification to help with reading and writing.
Morning message
This routine teachers children to look for the morning message which is interesting and useful.
Sight words
Young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight.
Convention of print
The process involves recognition that we read and write from left to right.
State standards
Students are expected to know about half of the alphabet before going to kindergarten.
Using LEA
Helps associate oral language with written language, teaching them what can be written down and read.
Environmental print
print of everyday life (ex:street signs)
Systematically developmental stage.
Children do not go from one stage in reading and writing systematically they may go forward but also go backwards.
"Idea from the Classroom"
A technique from teaching alphabet from kindergarten teacher Ruth Mandel.
Context and pictures
context and pictures can be used to figure out words and recognize they have meaning.
Language experience approach (LEA)
Teaching literacy based on a child's existing experience of language.
What are developmental levels in word recognition?
Identify words through sight and context, use letter-sound cues, and rely on sounding out word.
Assessing children's knowledge.
Ask a child about the letter if they know it put it in a correct pile if they do not know it put it in another pile to go over again.
Developing sight vocabulary
This is a skill that helps kids recognize words immediately making word attack skills unnecessary.