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Emerging Readers
- Tell, listen and retell stories they have heard
- This may include memorizing a story
- This may include retelling their own version of a story
- Experiment with writing their own stories
- Know about concepts of print (CAP)
- Books go from front to back
- Print is organized left to right, top to bottom
- Words are the things we read
- Letters stand for sounds we say
- Will use CAP when reading and writing
- Know letters and sounds, have good phonemic awareness skills and show
an interest in reading.
Helping Your Child
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Do shared reading with your child. Begin by having
him/her read sight words as they are covered in class. Children also
can use beginning letter sounds and picture clues to guess a word at the
end of a sentence.
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Books with simple, controlled text are best for beginning
readers. Ask the school or public librarian to help you find some of
these for your child.
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Beginning readers may have memorized the story.
While this is a stage of reading, pointing to the words while reading will
help develop reading skills.
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Keep reading times short and fun. Reading is hard
work.
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Keep a "word bank" of words your child can read.
Begin with kindergarten sight words and words familiar to him/her.
These may include names of family, friends or pets.
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