What are Print Concepts?
-an awareness of the print in our everyday environment
Concepts of Print
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book concepts
- front cover
- back cover
- title
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reading concepts
- print carries the message
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directionality concepts
- beginning of text
- left to right
- top to bottom
- return sweep
- one-to-one match
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concept of letter and word
- first word
- last word
- word
- first letter in a word
- last letter in a word
- one letter/two letters
- letter names
- a capital letter
- a small/lowercase letter
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punctuation marks
- period
- question
- question mark
- exclamation
- quotation
- comma
Marie Clay calls concepts about print “the rules of the road,” and writes, “Teachers must teach so that all children become knowledgeable about these essential concepts so they open doors to literacy.” She explains that teachers who have an understanding of what aspects of print their students are attending to can introduce students early on to print conventions through experiences in both reading and writing—especially through focused instruction in the first six months of school (Clay, 2000, pp. 24-25).
Resources
Whole Group Lessons
Name activities and class book ideas
FUN activities for concepts of print
Shared Reading Finger Plays
-Use a pointer to model print concepts on an enlarged version of the finger play. Use daily across a week. Repetition builds oral language.
-could write the rhyme as a part of Interactive Writing
http://drjeanandfriends.blogspot.com/search/label/Oral%20Language
Shared Poetry Reading
-left to right directionality and one-to-one matching
Scaffolds for Teaching Emergent Readers 1 to 1 Correspondence
CCSS RFS.K.1.a, b and c
Tricks for Teaching Left to Right
Formative Assessment Recording Sheet for Unknown Print Concepts
Parent Handouts-Phonemic Awareness and Print Concepts