ASSESSING AND TEACHING THE

EMERGENT READERS AND

WRITERSChapter 3

EMERGENT LITERACY The pre-reading skills that are the

building blocks of future reading success:Concepts of print:

Phonemic Awareness-letters represent soundsThe alphabet debateAwareness of what people are doing when they

read and write. Mostly from modeling.Assessed with letter sound fluency measures

(DIBELS) Book sense, book handling skills Phonological awareness – sounds make words

Assessed with phoneme segmentation (DIBELS)

EMERGENT LITERACY (CON’T) Oral Language

Print to speech to comprehsnion (understanding)Understanding events (a story) that are not

happening in the here and now “live” Vocabulary including vocabulary size

ComprehensionUnderstanding text (even when read aloud),

connecting it to schema

ASSESSING EMERGENT READERS Book handling skills Knowledge of reading words. Directionality of text Academic vocabulary

Beginning and endTop and bottomWord and letter

Upper vs. lower case letters and punctuation

Creating your own assessment vs. commercial assessments.

Assessing the alphabet Letters Sounds Automaticity / fluency

The concept of a word Pointing and one-to-one correspondence

Phonological Awareness Syllables Onset and rhyme Phonemes Matching rhyming words “Tell me all the sounds you hear in ball”

ASSESSING EMERGENT READERS (CONT.)

ASSESSING (CONT) Vocabulary (p. 63) Comprehension (p. 66)

TEACHING THE EMERGENT READER Modeling for print orientation

Big books Teaching the alphabet

Books, matching games Teaching sounds and letters

P. 75 Teaching the concept of a word

Read aloudSentence buildingLanguage experience stories

TEACHING TO BUILD PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS Multisensory

Tapping and sweepingClapping syllablesRhyming gamesPoetry

INTEGRATED INSTRUCTION Reading, shared reading and rereading

(p. 80)Modeling: decoding, expression, one to one

correspondence, metacognitive skills Guided Reading

TEACHING VOCABULARY AND LANGUAGE SKILLS Vocabulary

High frequency wordsTier two words

LanguageStory tellingDiscussion storiesListening activities