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Parents: Align with Common Core Standards Print Concepts

Print concepts-Kindergarten Common Core Benchmarks

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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

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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)]

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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

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Print Concept #2

• Print, not pictures, carry the message The child can

point to the picture

The child can point to the text

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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.

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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’

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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.

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