What research tells us children need to become successful readers:
- Talking Together (Oral Language)
- Speaking and listening
- Having conversations
- Using questions, predicting, and pretending
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Reading (Print Awareness)
- Knowing how to handle a book
- Noticing print all around
- Knowing that print has meaning
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Learning New Words (Vocabulary)
- Hearing many new words and using them
- Knowing words and what they mean
- Practicing new words in play
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Playing with Sounds (Phonological Awareness)
- Hearing the sounds that letters make
- Hearing ending sounds of words (rhyming)
- Hearing beginning sounds of words (alliteration)
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The Letters (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Recognizing letter symbols in print
- Naming the letters of the alphabet
- Knowing the sounds the letters make
Adapted from Saint Paul Public Schools Early Childhood CHOICE SM/JWJ/LG 01/05
Revised 2010
