Emergent Readers

3-5 years old

Read to (prior experience)

Relies on visuals

String of random letters

Emergent Readers

5-5.5 years old

Reading is choppy

Learning letter corresponds to sounds

Spelling dominant w consonants

Early

5-7 years old

Read most of CVC words

Identifies all sounds and letters

Writing is longer & more complex

Later

What type of reader does this describe?

Sees McDonalds arch and says that McDonalds!

Emergent

T/F - Children during early reading have no concept of the alphabetic principle

F

when you use something familiar (a sound, word, picture, or experience) to help students connect letters and sounds.

Cognitive Anchor

Awareness of how print works

Concepts of Print (CAP)

Directionality

Book organization and print convenctions

T/F - Directionality is language based.

T

left to right is English

Shared Reading

1) Point out speech bubbles - Meaning

2) Show book features - Organization

3) Ask who can find letters - Letters

4) Example? - Words

Counting number of words

How to foster literacy rich environment? List 3

Label pictures, Model writing for different purposes, and daily read alouds

Dictate story and draw picture

a) emergent

b) early

c) later

a

Read small repetitive texts

a) emergent

b) early

c) later

b

Uses Elkonin boxes

a) emergent

b) early

c) later

c