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Parents, help your kindergartener get ahead of the game. Do they have the basic 'concepts about print'? The new Common Core Standards list these as must have mastery by end of Kindergarten. These are a necessary first step to reading success. Inform yourself and engage in your child's reading success. View this presentation to discover the 'print concept' benchmarks to be mastered by end of Kindergarten.
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Parents: Align with Common Core Standards
Print Concepts
Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Kindergarten
• Necessary and important component to early reading success
• Child Demonstrates increasing awareness and competence
• Necessary “rules of the road” [Marie Clay (2000)]
Print Concept #1: hand the child a picture book and use this same book for all benchmarks to be measured
• Orientation or layout of textThe child can
Identify the front of the book
The child can Identify the back
of the book
The child can open the book to where the story begins
The child can show Proper placement of the book with spine facing left
Print Concept #2
• Print, not pictures, carry the message The child can
point to the picture
The child can point to the text
Print Concept #3
• Direction of print
The child can point to where you start reading
The child can show with their finger which
direction to read after the first word
Print Concept #4
• Page sequencing
Point to the last word on a ‘left page’ and ask the child to show you where
to read after this
Print Concept #5
• Difference between ‘letter’ and ‘word’
• Turn to any page of the book
The child can “show one letter”
The child can “show one word”
The child can “show the first
letter in a word”
The child can “show the last
letter in a word”
Print Concept #6
• Return sweep
• Turn to a page in the book with at least 2 lines of text The child can show you
where you go after you point to the last word in
the first line
Print Concept #7
• One-to-One Correspondence
Point to the first word on a new page and before reading ask the child to point to each word as you read the line. The child can follow and
match text with their finger as you read.
Print Concept #8
• Punctuation
• Use a page in the book that uses these standard ‘conventions’: a period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, and quotation marks
The child can point to the “period” and tell you
that means to ‘stop’
The child can point to the “comma” and tell you that
means to ‘pause’
The child can point to the “question mark” and tell you that someone is
asking a ‘question’
The child can point to the “exclamation
point” and tell you that means ‘excitement’
The child can point to the “quotation marks” and tell
you that ‘someone is talking’
Print Concept development relies upon
• Children need to be able to follow all the rules by the end of Kindergarten
• Print Concepts is just one aspect of literacy learning but is an important first step
parents and children reading, reading, reading.
Read more blogs from Buckaroo Buckeye’s Nuts About Reading™
athttp://www.buckaroobuckeye.com/
Mrs. C would love to answer any questions you might have about the reading process. Contact her at : [email protected] subject: reading question?