![Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
Kindergarten
• Necessary and important component to early reading success
• Child Demonstrates increasing awareness and competence
• Necessary “rules of the road” [Marie Clay (2000)]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/printconcepts-commoncore-140905161116-phpapp01/85/Print-concepts-Kindergarten-Common-Core-Benchmarks-2-320.jpg)
Print concepts-Kindergarten Common Core Benchmarks
- 1. Parents: Align with Common Core Standards Print Concepts
- 2. Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Kindergarten • Necessary and important component to early reading success • Child Demonstrates increasing awareness and competence • Necessary “rules of the road” [Marie Clay (2000)]
- 3. Print Concept #1: hand the child a picture book and use this same book for all benchmarks to be measured • Orientation or layout of text The child can Identify the front of the book The child can Identify the back of the book The child can open the book to where the story begins The child can show Proper placement of the book with spine facing left
- 4. Print Concept #2 • Print, not pictures, carry the message The child can point to the picture The child can point to the text
- 5. Print Concept #3 • Direction of print The child can point to where you start reading The child can show with their finger which direction to read after the first word
- 6. Print Concept #4 • Page sequencing Point to the last word on a ‘left page’ and ask the child to show you where to read after this
- 7. Print Concept #5 • Difference between ‘letter’ and ‘word’ • Turn to any page of the book The child can “show one letter” The child can “show one word” The child can “show the first letter in a word” The child can “show the last letter in a word”
- 8. Print Concept #6 • Return sweep • Turn to a page in the book with at least 2 lines of text The child can show you where you go after you point to the last word in the first line
- 9. Print Concept #7 • One-to-One Correspondence Point to the first word on a new page and before reading ask the child to point to each word as you read the line. The child can follow and match text with their finger as you read.
- 10. Print Concept #8 • Punctuation • Use a page in the book that uses these standard ‘conventions’: a period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, and quotation marks The child can point to the “period” and tell you that means to ‘stop’ The child can point to the “comma” and tell you that means to ‘pause’ The child can point to the “question mark” and tell you that someone is asking a ‘question’ The child can point to the “exclamation point” and tell you that means ‘excitement’ The child can point to the “quotation marks” and tell you that ‘someone is talking’
- 11. Print Concept development relies upon • Children need to be able to follow all the rules by the end of Kindergarten • Print Concepts is just one aspect of literacy learning but is an important first step parents and children reading, reading, reading.
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