Teaching concepts of print

Concepts of Print: Ideas for Teachers

By: Michigan's Mission: Literacy

Discover 20 ways to help children learn about concepts of print — that print carries meaning, directionality in a book, letter and word awareness, upper case and lower case letters, punctuation, and more.

1. Provide children with daily opportunities to participate in shared reading.
2. Encourage children to bring books from home to share.
3. Talk about the children’s own writing and drawings to help them.
4. Model as you read that the message is in the print, demonstrating the one-to-one correspondence between spoken and written words.
5. Make references to words, spaces, letters, lines of print, left to right, top to bottom, direction of print, in big books that you have read and as you model writing.
6. Use environmental print to make references to words, spaces, letters and lines of print.
7. Develop the concept of “left to right” by sticking a green dot on the left-hand top corner of the child’s desk to act as a reminder.
8. Have children suggest where the teacher should start when transcribing stories or beginning to read their big books.
9. Provide opportunities for paired reading. Ask an older student to read while a younger child follows along with his/her finger.
10. Count the words in a line of print or clap for each word spoken to help develop the children’s concept of a word.
11. Write a child’s news sentence onto sentence strips. Cut one sentence into individual words and encourage children to match words to the sentence strip, specifically using “first word,” “last word.”
12. Use name cards, nursery rhymes, room item labels, etc., to help children recognize words that are important to them.
13. Build up a bank of words frequently written or recognized by children. Display and refer to them when appropriate. Encourage children to refer to them when they are “writing.”
14. Use a variety of incidental activities to develop the concept of letter, e.g., play with letter cars, magnetic letters, plastic letters and alphabet games. Demonstrate and discuss that letters go together to make words.
15. Display an alphabet chart and talk about letters in other contexts, making sure the children can see that a letter is different from a word.
16. Make available capital and lower case letters of the alphabet for children to use and manipulate.
17. Model the use of conventions such as full stops, questions, pauses, etc., in context while modeling reading and writing.
18. Make use of quality book and tape sets so that children can hear different interpretations of the print.
19. Use elbow macaroni to “make sentences” with quotations and commas.
20. Have student’s highlight (specific) punctuation.

Michigan's Mission: Literacy (2016)

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Print Awareness: Guidelines for Instruction

By: Texas Education Agency

Print awareness is a child's earliest understanding that written language carries meaning. The foundation of all other literacy learning builds upon this knowledge. The following are guidelines for teachers in how to promote print awareness and a sample activity for assessing print awareness in young children.

Guidelines for promoting print awareness

• The organization of books

  Make sure students know how books are organized. They should be taught the basics about books – that they are read from left to right and top to bottom, that print may be accompanied by pictures or graphics, that the pages are numbered, and that the purpose of reading is to gain meaning from the text and understand ideas that words convey.

• Read to students

  Read to children from books with easy-to-read large print. Use stories that have predictable words in the text.

• Use "big books" and draw attention to words and letters

  Help children notice and learn to recognize words that occur frequently, such as a, the, is, was, and you. Draw attention to letters and punctuation marks within the story.

• Label objects and centers in your classroom

  Use an index card to label objects and centers within the classroom with words and pictures. Use an index card with the word "house" for the house center and draw a picture of a house. Draw students' attention to these words when showing them the different centers.

• Encourage preschool children to play with print

  They can pretend to write a shopping list, construct a stop sign, write a letter, make a birthday card, etc.

• Help children understand the relationship between spoken and written language

  Encourage students to find on a page letters that are in their names: "Look at this word, 'big.' It begins with the same letter as the name of someone in this room, 'Ben.'"

• Play with letters of the alphabet

  Read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Place several copies of each letter of the alphabet in a bowl and ask students to withdraw one letter. When everyone has a letter, ask each student to say the letter's name and, if the letter is in his or her own name, have the child keep the letter. Continue until the first child to spell his or her name wins.

• Reinforce the forms and functions of print

  Point them out in classroom signs, labels, posters, calendars, and so forth.

• Teach and reinforce print conventions

  Discuss print directionality (print is written and read from left to right), word boundaries, capital letters, and end punctuation.

• Teach and reinforce book awareness and book handling
• Promote word awareness by helping children identify word boundaries and compare words
• Allow children to practice what they are learning

  Ask them to listen to and participate in the reading of predictable and patterned stories and books.

• Provide practice with predictable and patterned books

  Also try using a wordless picture book like Pancakes. Go through each page asking the children to tell the story from the pictures. Write their narration on a large piece of paper. Celebrate the story they authored by eating pancakes!

• Provide many opportunities for children to hear good books and to participate in read-aloud activities

A sample activity for assessing print awareness

Give a student a storybook and ask him or her to show you:

• The front of the book
• The title of the book
• Where you should begin reading
• A letter
• A word
• The first word of a sentence
• The last word of a sentence
• The first and last word on a page
• Punctuation marks
• A capital letter
• A lowercase letter
• The back of the book

Excerpted and adapted from: Guidelines for Examining Phonics and Word Recognition Programs, Texas Reading Initiative, Texas Education Agency (2002). And from: Tips for Teaching Kids to Read; by Ed Kame'enui, Marilyn Adams, & G. Reid Lyon.

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