emergent/beginning literacy skills christine ryall, ph.d. irc mentor collaborative
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Emergent/Beginnin
g Literacy Skills
Christine Ryall, Ph.D.
IRC Mentor Collaborative
Concepts of Print
• Layout• Print• Orientation• Letters• Words• Punctuation• Pictures
Concepts of Print…with text
print carries a message
there is a one to one correspondence between words read and printed text
there are conventions of print
• Left to right:Directionality• Book parts: cover, spine, pages,
words, punctuation, pictures • Syntax…letters to words to
sentences• Function of illustrations
Conventions of PRINT
• Break down the foundation…• Consider the vowels and
consonants • Alphabet Knowledge–Match Upper case–Match Lower case–Production…write them
Concepts of Print
• Develop concepts through practice, consistent help, repetition
–many have limited experience–Environmental Print–Language Experience
Explicit Instruction is needed
Letter Identification
• one of the best predictors of reading success• 26 letters• 44 sounds• Write, say, trace, search and
find• Use more than books…• Use environmental print
Letters
ReinforcementLowercase lettersCapital lettersVarying font styles
Varying representations????
Letters
• Names• Big Books• Dictionaries• Newspaper scavenger hunts• Sandpaper, cereal, paint,• Playdough, string, pipe cleaners• Games…bingo!
Letter-based activities
Phonemic Awareness
• An important ingredient in learning to read• NOT the same as phonics/letters• Phonological awareness is a
predictor of reading readiness. • Stretch the sounds of word
beginnings and endings…without letters…show objects and pictures.
Phonemes
• Blending• Rhyming–Onset /c/–Rime /at/
• Segmenting–Elkonin boxes–Clapping–Body motion
Sound processes
• Say the sounds (not the letter)• Blend them to make the word• Say the word•Write the letters• Say the word
Step by step…
• Have FUN with sounds• Clap the sounds in words and
use manipulatives • Sight Word Identification
Skills to build on
Bridges to Vocabulary
• Sounds…face-to-face reproduction– Use mirrors, “sound phones,” modeling– SING familiar songs…talk about the words– Play the sort and identify objects game!– Use “pictures only” books to build discussion– Create word banks from familiar
activities/locations– REPETITION