Emergent Literacy Emergent Literacy and Concepts About and Concepts About

PrintPrint

Emergent Literacy Emergent Literacy and Concepts About and Concepts About

PrintPrint

Quick-Write: How do emergent readers develop?

• Write as many emergent literacy skills as you can think of in 2 minutes.

• Then name at least two instructional methods you can use to foster these emergent literacy skills.

Concepts About Print1. Marie Clay’s term for what emergent readers need to

understand about how printed language works and represents language. Its basic components include:

• Print carries a message (even if “pretend reading”)• Books are organized, with a cover, title, and author• Directionality: Reading flows in a particular and consistent

direction, left to right and top to bottom. • Printed language consists of letters, words, and sentences

(gradually learn to distinguish between)• One-to-one matching: More experienced readers begin to

recognize matching or upper and lower case letters Concepts About Words > Concepts About Letters

Hannah

• What does Hannah know about print and how it works?

Hannah knows…•

Evidence…•

Emergent Reading

• Concepts of Print (book orientation, directionality, print = meaning & purpose)

• Concepts of Word (things > label objects > combine to tell stories > hold concept of word in their mind)

• Concepts of Alphabet (letter name, formation, special features, direction, isolated & combined sound)

Stages of Reading Development (RI Literacy

Policy)• Emergent Reader - preschool;

“reading”; environmental print• Beginning Reader - understanding of

the alphabet and words (concepts of print) • Transitional Reader - recognizing and

manipulating within word differences• Intermediate Reader - Fluency and

“problem-solving” about the meaning• Advanced Reader - Reading to learn

Linking Stages of Reading and Writing Development (Tompkins)

• Emergent Writer – writing emerges from drawings; directionality, name, 5-20 words

• Beginning Writer – sentences and upper/lowercase; spell phonetically, 20-50 words

• Fluent Writer – uses writing process; paragraphs, vocabulary, vowel patterns and word endings, punctuation

EMERGENT READEREMERGENT READER

BEGINNING READERBEGINNING READER

FLUENT READERFLUENT READER

Stages of Reading Development (RI Literacy

Policy)

• Emergent Reader –

• Beginning Reader –

• Transitional Reader –

• Intermediate Reader –

• Advanced Reader -

Meshing Stages of Reading Development

(RI Literacy Policy & TOMPKINS)

• Emergent Reader –

• Early Reader –

• Transitional Reader –

• Intermediate Reader –

• Advanced Reader -

EMERGENT READEREMERGENT READER

BEGINNING READERBEGINNING READER

FLUENT READERFLUENT READER

Linking Stages of Reading and Writing Development (Tompkins)

• Emergent Writer –

• Beginning Writer –

• Fluent Writer –

EMERGENT READEREMERGENT READER

BEGINNING READERBEGINNING READER

FLUENT READERFLUENT READER