Concepts About Print facilitates reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. It includes understanding the difference between words and letters, punctuation and grammar.
Concepts About Print includes understanding the difference between words and letters, punctuation and directionality. Concepts About Print facilitates reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. These are vital components that support the development of reading. In order to learn to read, young children must learn how books work. Research shows that the young child’s awareness of print concepts provide the important basis on which early literacy skills are formed.
Alphabetic knowledge is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success in young children. It refers to knowledge of the names and sounds made by letters of the alphabet.Letter/ sound knowledge is the ability to understand that all letters have corresponding sounds. A child’s development and skill in reading and spelling will progress more quickly if they have a good knowledge of the sounds of the alphabet.
Blending activities are used to introduce and consolidate the blending together of simple two and three letter words.Blending is an important skill in early reading acquisition. It involves the skill of blending sounds together to form words.
Recognition of rhyme helps the young child develop the ability to break words into smaller components and recognise smaller parts in words.
Rhyming (phonological awareness) is the auditory awareness of sounds where a child recognises that words end with the same sound patterns. Recognition of rhyme is one of the first ways that a child demonstrates phonological awareness. This is an important part of literacy development, especially for spelling, because it can help children appreciate that words that share common sounds often share common letter sequences.
Sight Words are the most frequently used words in the English language. In order to read fluently, a child must be able to identify words accurately and quickly.
Sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language. In order to read fluently, a child must be able to identify words accurately and quickly. The automatic identification of sight words is an important step leading to an understanding of the text read. Building a child’s sight word vocabulary is a good way to strengthen early reading skills.
Word Families are groups of three letter words with a common word pattern, using the five vowels. The ability to blend these sounds together, promotes successful reading.Word Families are groups of words with a common and predictable pattern. The ability to blend these sounds together fluently, promotes successful reading.
The printable Ready Read Succeed™ resources are all available on one fantastic, great-value CD.
The printable Ready Read Succeed resources are all available on one fantastic CD.
(Please note that the coloured Concepts About Print story books and Word Family story books need to be purchased separately and are not available on CD).
The Complete CD includes:
Concept About Print Activity Work Books, Levels 1 and 2, 3 and 4
