Parents, help your kindergartener get ahead of the game. Do they have the basic 'concepts about print'? The new Common Core Standards list these as must have mastery by end of Kindergarten. These are a necessary first step to reading success. Inform yourself and engage in your child's reading success. View this presentation to discover the 'print concept' benchmarks to be mastered by end of Kindergarten.

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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Mrs. C would love to answer any questions
you might have about the reading process.
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