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Emergent Literacy
Emergent Literacy occurs daily in our classrooms. It encompasses story awareness, language awareness, and print awareness. Through interactive read alouds, shared readings, and independent reading, students develop the foundational skills needed to become readers and writers. These are gained through the use of fiction stories, nonfiction stories, poetry, rhymes, songs, traditional tales, and videos. The use of different modalities helps students develop early reading behaviors.
Through the Emergent Literacy structure, students:
- understand the basic story elements (character, setting, events)
- build their vocabulary
- understand print concepts (letters, words, title, author, illustrator, how to hold a book, front/back of the book, reading left to right, top to bottom, uppercase/lowercase letters, etc.)
- understand the structure of language
- read the pictures to tell a story
Emergent Writers
Writing in a prekindergarten classroom comes in many forms. Students engage in drawing and writing to tell their stories, imitate adults, experiment with writing materials, send messages and explore. Students in PreK classrooms will write for three purposes: to tell a story (narrative writing- tell a story about their lives/experiences or a made-up story), to inform (informational writing-make a book based on informational text they have heard and world experiences), and to express their opinion (i.e. favorite character, favorite part of the story, etc.). Students learn to tell stories as best they can, through drawing, labeling, and writing. For PreK students, DRAWING IS WRITING!
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