Let’s take a look at kindergarten literacy
development!
Wake up and listen!
Learning begins with listening!
Before a child can speak,
they are already attaching
meanings to sounds
through listening
i.e. mom’s voice, dad’s
voice, scream, laughter
VOCAL PLAY LEADS TO SPEECH SOUND
FORMATION
Vocal play (i.e.
cooing, “oooo”
“aaaa” “mmm”
Babbling (i.e. babada,
mamababa)
Word approximations
(i.e. dada!)
• GRADUALLY
SPEECH SOUNDS
EMERGE
• TO WHICH PARENTS
ATTACH
MEANING
• AND REINFORCE
WITH THEIR CHILD
THE JOURNEY BEGAN…..
Early Development
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0-6 mo. Cooing
6-10 mo. Babbling
12-18 mo. First words
Comprehension BEFORE
Production!
8-12 mo. can understand almost
50 words!
Before children come to school, they begin
to hear that some words rhyme, can
start with the same letter, can be short
of long
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i.e. nursery rhymes, songs
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
THE CHILD LEARNS TO ASSOCIATE THE
SOUND AND MEANING
•
FIRST APPROXIMATIONS DA -DA
•
THEN REFINES SOUNDS - DADDY
•
EXPANSION CONTINUES INTO
PHRASES “SEE DADDY”
•
AND THEN SENTENCES
“I SEE DADDY!”
**Vocabulary development: children develop the concept of a word prior to seeing it in print!
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH
READING ?
EVERYTHING !
Reading is…
using letter and sound clues to decipher words to
gain meaning from print.
FIVE
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF
READING
1.
Phonemic Awareness
2.
Word Recognition
3.
Vocabulary Development
4.
Comprehension
5.
Fluency
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
Hearing, understanding and manipulating the sounds of
our language
• Individual sounds are combined to form words.
• Words combine to form sentences.
WORD RECOGNITION
The ability to recognize a set of letters as a specific
word
• Sight word: Words automatically recognized (High Frequency Word)
the
come
you
•Word recognized through decoding… Matching the sound to letters and
blending them together. (Word Families)
cat
hat
bat
VOCABULARY
Attaching meaning to specific words
 Tier one and tier two words
Estatic
Happy
Glad
Cheerful
COMPREHENSION
Attaching meaning to a printed passage
• Readers use strategies (plans) to
understand and remember what they read
• Read Aloud
FLUENCY
Reading at a reasonable pace with accuracy and
expression
• Repeated reading of the same text
• Predictable books
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN
READING AND WRITING…
KIDWRITING
An approach to teaching developmentally
appropriate writing in a supportive
environment
1. Teachers model skills.
2. Students draw pictures then write about
them.
3. Adults help students use phonetic
clues to write words and sentences.
EXAMPLE OF KIDWRITING:
I put pickles in my pot.
HOW DO I HELP MY CHILD ?
IT’S REALLY EASY!!
DO………..
SHARE YOUR LOVE OF READING
TALK ABOUT THE BOOKS YOU AND YOUR CHILD
READ
MAKE LEARNING FUN
TURN FUN INTO LEARNING
EXPLORE
BE A GOOD READING AND SPEAKING MODEL
KEEP READING TO YOUR CHILDREN
THE BEST TOOL..
YOU AND YOUR CHILD INTERACTING
WITH PRINT