What is print concepts

Concepts of Print Assessment | Reading Rockets

By: Reading Rockets

An informal assessment of the concepts of print, including what the assessment measures, when is should be assessed, examples of questions, and the age or grade at which the assessment should be mastered.

All assessments should be given one-on-one.

What it measures

If a student understands:

• That print has meaning
• That print can be used for different purposes
• The relationship between print and speech
• There is a difference between letters and words
• That words are separated by spaces
• There is a difference between words and sentences
• That there are (punctuation) marks that signal the end of a sentence
• That books have parts such as a front and back cover, title page, and spine
• That stories have a beginning, middle, and end
• That text is read from left to right and from top to bottom

When should it be assessed?

Assess concepts of print twice during kindergarten, at the start of school and at mid-year. In addition, as you model story reading techniques to help guide instruction, identify students who need additional support, and determine if the pace of instruction should be increased, decreased, or remain the same.

Examples of assessment questions

Give the student a book and ask the following questions:

• Can you show me:
  • a letter?
  • a word?
  • a sentence?
  • the end of a sentence (punctuation mark)?
  • the front of the book?
  • the back of the book?
  • where I should start reading the story?
  • a space?
  • how I should hold the book?
  • the title of the book?
  • how many words are in this sentence?

Age or grade typically mastered

Some students enter kindergarten with an understanding of print concepts, but other will master it as the school year goes on.

See also this concepts of print assessment from Michigan's Mission: Literacy.

Reading Rockets (2004)

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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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10. The development of the concept of printing in the 17th century.

First regular printed newspapers were published in different cities of Europe already at the beginning of the XVII century. But none of the newspapers provided while such an impact on society and was not as significant as La Gazette. Her the first issue was published in Paris at the court King Louis XIII May 30, 1631. Idea the creation of the newspaper belonged to the cardinal Richelieu, who pursued the political, economic and information purposes. The first chief editor of La Gazette was Theophrastus Renaudeau (1583–1653). Daily the newspaper was called to help the king govern the state and became the mouthpiece authoritarian power. Renaudo employee was not only Richelieu, but the king himself. Louis XIII regularly himself incognito wrote to the newspaper, in particular, about his military exploits and was, in fact, the first military journalist.

C the appearance of "La Gazette" in France has developed authoritarian print concept. Into Miscellaneous this concept dominated the journalism in almost every country in the world. For authoritarian concept newspaper - mouthpiece authorities, through it not only communicate news, but directives are also sent to places. Here, prior censorship, no sensationalism, truthful information is often sacrificed the interests of the government. Press structure - vertical.

B English printing appeared in 1477 year when the printer William Caxton (1422–1491) published the book “Sayings, or Sayings of Philosophers. Soon, in 1487 year, King Henry VII established the Star chamber - censorship institution, existed until 1641, the purpose of which there was a struggle with sedition and royal enemies. The censorship law was passed in England in 1509 under King Henry VIII. According to this law, books allowed to print in London, Oxford and Cambridge. Before leaving, they must were looking through university professors (secular censorship) and bishop Canterbury (spiritual censorship).

First became an English newspaper published in 1622-1641 "Weekly News" ("Weekly news"). Her publisher Nathaniel Batter had not, like his French contemporary Theophrastus Renaudeau, patrons at court, besides, the king did not attach importance newspaper as an assistant in the distribution its policy. Batter was forbidden write about meetings, debates in parliament and in general to concern internal news. The authoritarian press always comes first the queue controlled the internal information. Often a batter to borrow censored places in the newspaper, made up the news or reprinted bible chapters

Heyday political journalism (and first turn of the pamphlet genre) fell on 1640s, when England began civil war (1642–1646, 1648–1649), leading to the execution of King Charles I in 1649 year and the abolition of censorship. In 1644 the poet writer and publicist John Milton (1608–1674) published without permission censorship pamphlet “On freedom of the press. Speech to the English Parliament (Areopagitica)." Based on the form of ancient speech and imitating first of all Isocrates, Milton gave a historical overview of the constraints of the press and led readers to the conclusion that all these the embarrassment was born of the Inquisition. Milton analyzed the qualities of the censors, writing out abstract and unattainable opinion, the image of the ideal censor. Censorship, Milton believed, is distrust of people and dishonor for the English society. Further, the author wrote about impotence censorship to prevent the spread truth. Censorship is useless, harmful and degrades human dignity.

After defeat of the English revolution journalism has fallen on hard times. Restored under King Charles II former control over the press. Began publication of government and state newspapers, the first of which was the established in 1665 "Oxford Gazette" ("Oxford newspaper"), soon renamed "London Gazette" ("London newspaper"). So time all English newspapers settled on Fleet Street, not far from St. Paul's Square, which has long was a news gathering place.

B 1688 in England there was a glorious revolution, which established the current form separation of powers. February 13, 1689 Parliament passed the Bill of Rights document that still plays a role constitution and press law. The first the Bill's paragraph states that if Parliament passed a law, the king has no right to cancel his. For journalists was the most important ninth paragraph: "Freedom of speech, debate and everything that happens in parliament, cannot be a reason for persecution, be subject to litigation and nowhere but Parliament.

Bill on rights formed the basis of the English concept freedom of the press. Her distinctive features are that, firstly, only Parliament can regulate the work presses; second, control is denied by the state and the church; thirdly, its basis is economic freedom, that is, a newspaper can be published everyone who has ideas and money and decisive The factor is not political, but economic. In addition, it is in the Bill of Rights for the first time the term freedom appears the words.

B 1694 year the principle of licensing was abolished press, Parliament did not renew the law about censorship. But not immediately English printing was able to take advantage of real fruits of freedom. Parliament is even more half a century tried to restrain the growth and influence of the press by economic methods, introducing various taxes (for example, stamp tax, paper tax, ads).

Actual freedom of the press was soon formalized by law. August 24, 1789 The National Assembly adopted the Declaration human and civil rights, eleventh whose article reads: "Free expression of thought and opinion is one of the most valuable human rights. Each citizen has the right, therefore, freely speak, write and print, in charge of abuse of this freedom cases specified by law. So French began to take shape press freedom concept. Her formation was painful, almost whole century after the adoption of the Declaration struggle for reality her principles. Freedom of the press proclaimed in 1789year and confirmed by decree legislature in 1791, was abolished in 1800 by Napoleon, then repeatedly re-declared and was canceled and finally on July 29, 1881 finalized in the law on press, one of the brightest laws in the history of world journalism, which Generally speaking, it still works today.

Main feature of the French concept freedom of the press - in the greatest, in comparison from English and especially American concept, the role of the state in journalism. French journalism regulated by law. In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen for the first time, human rights are declared.

B early years of the revolution (1789–1791) freedom The press was limitless. Often journalists both ultra-revolutionaries and supporters of the monarchy - openly called in their newspapers to violence, murder, pogroms. In 1789 there were 250 periodicals editions, and by 1791 more than five hundred newspapers of various kinds. With the advent of the Jacobin terror freedom of the press, despite the declaration in the constitution of 1793, became limited guillotine. In March 1793, the convention gave the right to execute anyone who "revealed in compiling and printing writings that proclaim restoration in France royal power or the dissolution of the National Convention". Law of 17 September 1793 years "About suspicious" provided ruthlessly exterminate all who whatever way he showed himself "partisan of tyranny or federalism and enemy of freedom. These acts gave wide ability to deal with personal enemies. A mass perished on the scaffold journalists representing all political currents. domination bloody revolutionary dictatorship ended on July 27, 1794, when arrested and executed its head Maximilian Robespierre.

B years of revolution most popular used newspapers published under editorial or direct the participation of the main figures of the revolution, such as Jean Paul Marat, Camille Desmoulins, Maximilian Robespierre and others

One of the first was Elise Lustalo, who published newspaper "Revolutions de Paris" ("Parisian revolution"), which after death Lustalo was called the encyclopedia of the French revolution.

11. Traditions early Christian preaching journalism.

Historical sources show that the first centuries of Christianity, preaching was common accompanying the actual service to God (liturgy) and collective prayers. St. Justin, one of the early church fathers (II c.), describes Sunday as follows Christian congregation and its components - read Scripture, then a sermon, prayers, liturgy proper (rituals of thanksgiving and communion): “On the so-called day Sun - Sunday - happens with us gathering in one place of all living cities and villages; and read how much time permits, the tales of the apostles or the writings of the prophets. Then, when the reader cease, the primate through words give instruction and exhortation imitate those beautiful things.

Then Let's all stand up and send out prayers. When will we finish the prayer, as I did above said, bring bread, and wine, and water; and the primate also sends up prayers and thanksgiving as much as he can. People expresses his agreement with the word amen, and there is a distribution to each and fellowship Gifts over which Thanksgiving was performed, but those who have not been are sent through deacons. Instruction and exhortation of the primate imitate those beautiful things early Christian preaching. She was called homilia (Greek omilia - meeting, community; conversation, teaching). Later the term homiletics - "the rules for compiling sermons; the science of ecclesiastical eloquence. There is evidence that practical guides on homiletics compiled among other things and Origen (185-254), the famous theologian and biblical scholar.

Sunday preaching in the medieval western Christianity, especially in large temples, was quite common. At the same time, guidelines for sermons were absent for a long time. It was believed that the pastoral word about God needs no rhetorical embellishments and that sincere faith will prompt the right word. Some of these views were supported apparent simplicity, compositional "Disorder" of the "Sermon on the Mount" or the epistles of the apostle Paul. That's why did not address the technique of preaching special attention. One of the fathers Western Church - Pope Gregory the Great in "Pastoral Care" (c. 591 year) wrote: “Whom the Lord has filled, he immediately makes eloquent” (quoted from the work: Gasy 1986, 99). However, with the development of the European rhetoric, with the rise in popularity of manuals how to write letters and business paper, in the XIII-XIV centuries. textbooks appear and according to church eloquence (lat. arspraedicandi - the art of preaching).

B universities in the faculties of theology taught the so-called "thematic" sermon, distinguishing it from a homily as preaching "free", unsophisticated. AT "thematic" sermon was required according to certain logical and rhetorical rules to develop the "theme" declared in the title of the sermon. "Theme" could be a line from Scripture, praise of the feast or a saint (on whose feast day service), interpretation of the name of a saint or any name at all, discussion of event whose anniversary is on the day of the service, etc. Such sermons were read in temples, that is, they were a type of oral public ceremonial speech, however they were prepared in advance, that is, they existed both in writing and often afterwards published as essays representing an independent theological and journalistic aesthetic value.

"Thematic" sermon (it was also called "university") for several centuries felt like the pinnacle ecclesiastical rhetoric.

Among famous scientist manuals church eloquence and Ukrainian homiletics - “Science, albo way of evil Kazan" (1659) Ioanniky Galyatovsky, Rector of the Kyiv Collegium, erudite and polemicist. He published this treatise in the book "The Key of Understanding" - a collection exemplary tales (sermons), intended as a practical guides for preachers. Author detail and just talks about two genres sermons for Sundays and funerals. Homiletics is written as advice from an experienced preacher to beginners - about how choose and deploy a theme, how to do sermon coherent, seek attention hearers as speaking of the unrighteous wealth, not too embarrass and frighten rich, how not to drive people to despair funeral word, etc. This is the first Eastern Slavs printed rhetoric. AT 17th century it has been reprinted twice more Kyiv and Lvov, translated into Church Slavonic for Moscow Rus' and was a reference book for many generations of priests.

12. Seal Germany 17.18 century.

B 1605 a new type of printing appeared in the world publications - newspaper. It was published in then German Strasbourg. By the end of the XVII century. in German speaking lands 60-80 different newspapers were published. They, though and corresponded to the concept of "newspaper" in modern sense, yet significantly differed from the newspapers of the 20th century, not only outwardly, but also in content.

B modern German "newspaper" called Zeitung. In the 17th century, under the word "Zeitung" was understood as any news, news. If they said that "I brought you Zeitung " it meant that "I have for you news". For the concept of "newspaper" - printed publications of a new type - first used the words "Avisen" and "Relationen", which were later forced out the modern word "Zeitung".

Long time there were disputes about who and where printed in Germany's first newspaper, and what in general count as a newspaper. Modern research showed that the first newspaper was "Relation", which he published in Strasbourg - then still German - Johann Carolus (German) Russian (Johann Carolus) from 1605 This was the first printed newspaper not only in Germany, but also in the world . Corolus got the idea to collect various news of recent events from the hands that came to the city from various sources, print them and publish once a week. The newspaper was called "Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien" (The news of all important and significant stories).

headlines articles served sources of information, For example: "From Rome". The news was not systematized, but printed in that sequences as they did to the editor. Therefore, the latest news were at the end of the newspaper. If the news have not yet arrived, then about this and printed. At the beginning of the 17th century, news of events reached readers in in most cases after 2-4 weeks, at the end of the 18th century - during the French revolution - after 3-7 days.

News transmitted literally and in 3 out of 4 cases without comments. Political news took up about half newspapers. Courtiers dominated among them. news. Sources of information - noble courts - gave through newspapers news for peers. For them they were often an intermediary in the transmission information, especially for small yards, so many in Germany at that time, for whom newspapers replaced costly its mailing network.

Circulations newspapers were very small. Yes, the Frankfurt newspaper in the 1620s it was published in 450 copies. Average newspapers were printed in 350-400 copies. The largest circulation - in 1.500 - reached the Hamburg weekly Wöchentliche Zeitung. At the same time, it is necessary note that it is now believed that each newspaper was read by about 10 person ^[4] : newspapers lay in coffee houses and inns yards, taverns, special houses news (German Avisenbuden ) and they were publicly read, even in villages ^[5] . This means that if the circulation of the newspaper was 400 copies, then it reached about 4000 readers. Pay attention to the size of cities in the 17th century is a lot. Also it is believed that in the XVII century about 1/4 - 1/5 of the adult population knew about the latter events from the press, during the French revolutions about every second ^[4] .

Newspapers announcements (German Intelligenzblatt, Intelligenzwesen , English → General Advertiser, Public Advertiser, Intelligencer ) — one of the three directions in German periodical press until the 19th century, along with with newspapers and magazines, reached the greatest flourishing in the XVIII and the coming fell into disrepair by the middle of the nineteenth century.

AT Russian for German words Intelligenzblatt, Intelligenzwesen , meaning one of the three types of periodic publications that appeared in Europe in the 17th century, there is no exact analogue. According to the meaning, it can translate as "supply and demand newspaper" ( GSP ). Translation as "newspaper of private announcements" would be misleading because ads in them were significant partly not private.

German the word consists of two parts: from the Latin "intellégere", which means "to know", and German "Blatt" - "paper, newspaper". Thus, Intelligenzblatt is is a periodical that "useful things for knowledge" were printed, initially various proposals and announcements. Modern analogue of the first such publications - their content changed over time - one could call newspaper "From Hand to Hand"

Important do not confuse two different types of periodic editions: "ordinary" newspaper and newspaper "supply and demand". In the first news was published; the second represented initially something like public market, where everyone offered and informed others about what he wanted, including including the state. It was newspaper useful information, unlike newspapers with political news of which there is little practical benefit.

13. Appearance weekly newspaper.

Starting from 1609 weekly periodicals printed publications became rapidly spread throughout Europe: in 1610 d. printed weekly "Ordinari Wohenzeitung" began to be published in Basel, in 1615 to Basel joined by Frankfurt am Main and Vienna. In 1616 the newspaper appears in Hamburg, in 1617 - in Berlin, in 1618 - in Amsterdam, in 1620 - in Antwerp, Magdeburg, Nuremberg, Rostock, Braunschweig, Cologne.

What concerns Cologne, then in this city, starting from 1588 (and possibly earlier), Michel von Eitzing published twice a year a selection of political and military events semester called "Relatio Historica" ("Historical Bulletin") and sold its edition in autumn and spring on Frankfurt book fairs. At 159four another edition appeared in Cologne, covering the events of the past six months. "Mercurius Gallo Belgicus" ("Gallo-Belgian Mercury") came out in Latin and was known far beyond Germany.

K 1630 weekly newspapers appeared already in 30 European cities. rapid spread printed periodicals, and period from 1609 to 1700. only in Germany experts recorded walking about 200 newspapers, due to the increased level of typography, growth cities and an increase in demand for various information from the city population, the main consumer of this type of printed matter.

However the process of the appearance of the first newspapers in a number of countries was restrained by strict censorship rules governing the emergence printed products. ubiquitous introduction of the institution of preliminary censorship that appeared almost immediately after the invention of printing was state response to uncontrolled dissemination of ideas, opinions and information.

Already in 1502 a law was passed in Spain, according to which all printed publications had to go through preliminary censorship. Censorship functions were assigned on state and church structures. Edict of Worms 1521 against Luther, provided for the introduction prior censorship in Germany.

Reaction Catholic Church for the victory of the Reformation was the appearance in Rome in 1559 of the first "Index of Forbidden Books" published by Vatican and introducing censorship on publications, circulating in countries the Catholic world. Moreover, "Index forbidden books" pursued not only for writing, publishing and distributing forbidden books, but also for reading them and storage. It is no coincidence that John Milton his famous "Areopagitica" compared papal censorship with "secret monster" of the Apocalypse.

Precisely censorship has led to the fact that the first printed newspapers in England and France appeared with relative late. In England in 1538 was adopted a law according to which any printer should have received a royal patent for their activities, and the workshop organization typographers - Book Publishers Company - was obliged not only to represent printed materials for preliminary censorship, but also monitor the activities members of your department. Ordinance 1585 regulated the appearance of the printed products and determined the quantity printing houses operating in the kingdom (their number should not exceed 20), functions of censorship in England were assigned to the so-called Star Chamber at Privy Council of the King, who played in the XVI-XVII centuries the role of the press committee. Right chief censors in the Star Chamber received by the Archbishops of London and Canterbury, without whose sanction not a single print could be published text. In France, the law of 1561 prescribed scourging distributors and authors of "slanderous" leaflets and pamphlets. In case of repeated violation the law of persons guilty were punished by death execution.

B conditions of severe censorship pressure the role of a kind of "catalyst" for appearance of English and French newspapers played Holland, which in XVII century was the most liberal country of Europe.

Authoritarian conception of the press - Studiopedia

it not only communicates news, but also sends directives (orders) to places

2) preliminary censorship

3) no sensations

4) truthful information is often sacrificed to the interests of power.

5) press structure – vertical.

Yus. State power exercises full control over the production of printed materials, namely over its ideological orientation

was formed in the era of absolutism, the monarchy and the church made printing an instrument of government the people

not a single book or newspaper could be printed without the consent of the authorities

La Gazette means of implementing the political program

the publisher could publish only what was beneficial for the government

all materials in the newspaper were made by order , or at least with permission of the king and cardinal

Richelieu was in fact its supreme editor.

opposition publications banned , censorship monitored seditious writings that threatened the authority of the monarch and the church the government issued many laws restricting the printed word

a large number of temporal and spiritual authorities designed to destroy objectionable works

Violators were persecuted and were cruelly punished , until the use of death penalty

all this was inhibited by the development of the press in France - until the start of the FFR

1789-1794 - the Great French Revolution. stages)