Emergent Reader Skills

Every week we will read a poem together during our shared reading time. Our first poem in K-125 is "I Like School". The students will get a copy of the poem every Friday to paste into their Poetry notebook. The activities or lessons that go along with the poems will vary each week. This week we are focusing on pointing to each word as we read while stressing the left to right directionality. We are working on matching our voice to print with one-to-one correspondence. Below is a list of emergent literacy concepts we have been working on this week during our literacy blocks. Please reinforce these skills at home while reading aloud with your child. Sight word hunts are fun to do using picture books. Sight word hunts are played by calling out  a high frequency word and looking for it in the book to see how many there are. Even if your child is unable to read the words in the book have him/her point to each word to distinguish between a word and a letter. It also enables the reader to practice return sweeping using a left to right directionality. These simple skills are very important to building the skills of a reader!

Emergent Literacy Concepts

Concepts of Print
• Knows that a book is for reading.
• Can identify front, back, top, bottom of book.
• Turns pages properly.
• Recognizes the difference between print and pictures.
• Knows that pictures and words are related.
• Knows where to begin reading on a page.
• Knows what a title is.
• Identifies page numbers.
• Knows that print is read from left to right.
• Knows that print is oral language written down.
• Reads environmental print and logos.

Concepts of Word
• Knows what a word is.
• Can point to words on a page.
• Finger points readings of memorized
text.
• Demonstrates one-to-one correspondence.
• Reads own name.
• Recognizes name in various formats.

Concept of Letter
• Discriminates letters from symbols
and from each other.
• Writes letter-like and letter forms.
• Begins to name letters.
• Sings and says alphabet.