Florida Center for Reading Research Activities

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Print Concepts

Print concepts is the understanding that printed letters and words carry meaning. This helps children understand how books and print work. Children need to understand that words make up written and spoken communication.

Goals for Strong Readers

• Recognize the connection between spoken and written words.

• Understand that letters and numbers are different.

• Know that words are groups of letters.

• Recognize that print moves from left to right, top to bottom and page by page.

• Recognize and write first name; recognize and write some letters to represent words.

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Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness prepares children’s ears for manipulating words and sounds. It includes identifying and making oral rhymes, clapping out the number of syllables in a word, and recognizing words with the same initial sounds like mom and make.

Goals for Strong Readers

• Recognize rhyming words and create rhyming word pairs (top/pop).

• Tell the first and last sound they hear in a word.

• Show how many sounds are in a word using their fingers (cat = c-a-t = 3 sounds).

• Tell the number of words they hear in a sentence.

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Language and Vocabulary

Langauge and vocabulary relate to a child’s knowledge of and memory for word meanings. A strong vocabulary improves all areas of communication—listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Goals for Strong Readers

• Learn and use new words through an array of activities.

• Build a large receptive vocabulary (words children understand when they are read or spoken to).

• Enhance expressive vocabulary (words children know well enough to use in speaking and writing).

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