Let’s take a look at kindergarten literacy development!

Wake up and Wake up and listen!listen! Learning begins with listening!Before a child can speak, they are already attaching meanings to sounds through listeningi.e. mom’s voice, dad’s voice, scream, laughter

Vocal play (i.e. cooing, “oooo” “aaaa” “mmm”Babbling (i.e. babada, mamababa)Word approximations (i.e. dada!)

VOCAL PLAY LEADS TO SPEECH SOUND FORMATION

• GRADUALLY

SPEECH SOUNDS EMERGE

• TO WHICH PARENTS ATTACH

MEANING

• AND REINFORCE

WITH THEIR CHILD

THE JOURNEY BEGAN…..

Early Development 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

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

COMPREHENSIONAttaching meaning to a printed

passage

• Readers use strategies (plans) to understand and remember what they read

• Read Aloud

FLUENCYReading 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