Competency 7.0 - Understand the Development of Concepts of Print

Understanding that print carries meaning is demonstrated every day.
How to hold the book, where to start, direction of left to right.

Strategies for Promoting Concepts of Print

Write down what children say
Label items in the classroom
Read together with big print books
Practice handling a book
Discuss and compare similar words
Match oral words to printed words
Manipulate letters to change words
Create and respond to messages with letter cards

Environmental print activities can be helpful in children understanding that print holds meaning.

Modeling can be one of the most effective tools in teaching concepts of print, such as reading from left to right and top to bottom. This is also useful for tracking print, by pointing to each individual word as it is read orally to the children.

	Created by Chad White about 11 years ago

Literacy CST Note on Sub Area II. Reading Instruction and Assessments, created by Chad White on 02/06/2013.