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When your kiddos pick up a book, take note of their directionality. Do they know how to hold the book? Can they point to the front cover and the title? These simple observations are the first part of doing a concepts of print assessment.

Zander of has excellent spacing, punctuation, and inventive spelling. Plus, he added illustrations to help tell his storing of going fishing. Great job, Zander (and mom for encouraging your kid to write at home). He has demonstrated the basic knowledge of print awareness skills, and is ready for first grade! His mom has been working with him at home to prepare him for a kindergarten writing test he will have at the end of the year. Here is a kindergarten writing sample, written by Zander. These Would You Rather Questions make perfect journal prompts. If they are in their toddler years, give them crayons and let them draw (scribble) as you talk about pictures in a book.Īs they progress to emergent writing skills, encourage them to write everyday.

Kids are never too young to start journal writing. The kids absolutely love building their favorite nursery rhyme or poem using the large print word cards. This is one of THE BEST ways to help your kids become fluent readers! If you don’t want to purchase the pocket chart poems, you can write the words on a sentence strip and cut it apart yourself. Keep the game going by letting the kids pass a book to their friend. Tell them, “if you see the front cover of your book, hold it up.” Repeat for the back cover. They look to see if they have a front cover facing up or a back cover. Have the kids put their hands in their laps, then put a book in front of each of them (mixing up who has a front cover or back cover facing up). These printable Building Sentences worksheets for perfect for kids who are learning about what makes a sentence.īook walks, or picture walks, are when you have the kids walk through the book, starting at the first page, and tell what they see happening in the pictures. Grab these printable Letter Hunt worksheets to begin practicing concepts of print, today! These printable worksheets are great for building vocabulary, concepts of print, and early writing skills. Then, have them sort them into two groups (numbers and letters). Give the kids a mixed up set of magnetic letters and numbers.

Do shared reading activities: Encourage kids to participate in predictions, picture talks, etc.Īctivities and Tips for Concepts of Print Awarenessĭo you want the perfect way to build a love of reading? Here are some fun ways for kids to become successful readers throughout the school year.

Highlight text features: Let the kids use highlighters, highlighting tape, crayons, or their favorite gel pens to highlight or circle text features.

(period, question mark, exclamation marks, etc)

Model fluency and expression often: You can learn more about teaching punctuation marks here.

Reference environmental print often: Point out letters and words on their favorite cereal or snack boxes, read aloud street signs, familiar restaurant signs, toy packaging, etc.

Expose the kids to various types and sizes of books: board books, magazines, big books, touch and feel books, flap books, picture books, and even books on their favorite tablets.

Read or sing a Poem of the Day: Point to the words as the kids recite the familiar poems and nursery rhymes.

I love playing books for them on Audible.

Follow along on audio: Let the kids follow along to their favorite stories on audio.

Use pointers to track print: Don’t have pointers? Craft sticks work perfect for this.

When you teach children how books work, they will gain the basic understandings of reading.

Knowing the purpose of capital letters and punctuationĪs an essential foundation of reading, it’s important for parents and teachers to help the kids develop these early reading and writing skills.

Identifying the first and last letter of a word.

Knowing how to tell the start and end of a sentence.

Pointing and reading one-to-one (pointing to one word as one word is spoken).

Swooping down after getting to the end of a line.

Idea of directionality: Following print from left-to-right.

Understanding the different symbols (numbers vs.

Book awareness: Knowing where the words are.

Finding the title on the front cover and the title page.

Identifying parts of a book: Front, back, cover, title page, etc.

When teachers refer to a concept of print, they are referencing how print works, or a kids’ ability to understand print, text, or written language. Let’s take a look at what concepts of print are, tips, activities, and how to assess young children. Chances are, you’re either a parent or early childhood educator trying to understand more about concepts of print.

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