Study Guide for Reading Notes 3 What are some of the home literacy experiences that also support young children s understanding of print concepts during the emergent literacy period o Reading stories with parents o Going to the store and having signs pointed out o Learning their name o Learning how words make up books How can you create a print rich and literacy rich environment in early childhood classrooms You will also want to revisit Chapter 2 of BennettArmistead et al to answer this o Having a classroom library o Putting print on walls and on other surfaces throughout the classroom o Hanging materials that promote interaction with print and it s purposes What are some best practices to teach concepts of print to young children o It is important to have a literary rich classroom o The children should be surrounded by print in their day to day lives o Children are encouraged to pretend or attempt to read and write What is the value of Dramatic Play How does dramatic play support literacy o Children get to experiment with roles that they are both familiar with and unfamiliar with o Children get to work through issues that are troubling them o Children get to play with concepts and ideas and make them their own o Children get to build literacy in ways that other classroom activities do not stimulate What are the features of well apportioned book nook or classroom library o The book nook must have pieces of furniture such as large pillows questions or beanbag chairs o The area must have book storage such as racks freestanding cases wall mounted shells and bins to organize books o It must have nonbook Materials such as magazines for small children audiotape players and headphones for listening to books on tape puppets and plush toys of book characters for acting out stories flanal board was felt characters for retelling stories Terms Concepts of Print Print Awareness o The understanding that letters on a page mean words and those words are things in real life Book genre o The sort of category that the book falls under such as informational Narratives o The basic body of the story that tells the basics of what happened in the plot Informational text o A book that is not fiction and supplies knowledge rather than entertainment Predictable books o Books that repeat themselves and are often linked with big colorful pictures to help the child link the word with the picture Concept books o Books that teach all about one thing such as trucks cars or dogs Shared Writing o When students as a group take turns to share what they have written on a given subject at the end of a workshop
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