1. “HOW DO I TEACH LEARNERS
AT THE PREK-3 LEVELS ?”
CREATING A LITERATE ENVIRONMENT FOR EMERGENT & BEGINNING
LEARNERS
2. GETTING TO KNOW EMERGENT &
BEGINNING LEARNERS
BACKGROUND
KNOWLEDGE
Prior experience
Cultural life style
Home life
Interest
ASSESSMENTS
Oral development
Concept of Print
Alphabetic Principles
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Word Knowledge
Fluency
Vocabulary
LEARNING STYLES
Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic
Tactile
Linguistic
Logical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
4. ORAL DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIES
Rule of Five- Having students use at least five words when
speaking.
Let’s Talk- An area where students use props to talk and play
uninterrupted for at least 15 minutes. ( Verbally fluent
speaker is paired with a less verbally fluent speaker.
One Looks, One Doesn’t- 2 partners, one look at a picture
and describes it while the other one guess the picture.
Poetry- Teaching Modeling, Choral Reading, singing poem,
response poem
Story Telling
Dialogic Reading- Students responding to strategic questions
while reading a book multiple times.
5. CONCEPTS ABOUT PRINT
STRATEGIES
Environment Print Reading
Interactive Read A-louds
Shared Reading
Letter Manipulatives
Voice Pointing
Error Detection
Masking or Highlighting Print
Verbal Punctuation – Each punctuation mark in a piece of text is given a
sound.
Framing Print
LEA (Language Experience Approach)- Student own personal oral stories are
dictated into print.
6. ALPHABETIC
PRINCIPLE/PHONEMIC
AWARENESS STRATEGIES
Elkonin Boxes
Rhymes and Alliteration
Children’s Names
Add a Sound/Take a Sound
Blending/Segmenting Sound
Environment Print
Alphabet games
Poetry
Alphabet Books
8. PHONICS AND DECODING
EXPLICIT PHONIC INSTRUCTION
LETTER SOUND CARDS
PHONICS PICTURES
MUSIC PHONICS
TONGUE TWISTERS
NONSENSE WORDS
• Making words
• Word detector
• Reading phonics stories
• Creating patterns
• Word Study
• Examining Root Words
12. TEXT COMPLEXITY
QUANTITATIVE MEASURES
QUALITATIVE MEASURES
• Word Frequency
• Sentence Length
• Text cohesion
• Concept Density
• Background Knowledge
• Levels of Meaning
• Language Conventions & Structure
13. STRATEGY FOR TEXT COMPLEXITY
CLOSE READING
INSTRUCTIONS
SHORT COMPLEX PASSAGES
LIMITED FRONT LOADING
• Repeated Readings
• Text Dependent Questions
• Annotations
15. PHONICS
EMERGENT
• Use alphabetic principles
• Picture sort
• Alphabet font sort
• Matching upper case with lower
case letters
• Alphabetic games
BEGINNING
• Teach what they are using but
confusing
• Word study- word families,
picture sort, word sort
• Look for word patterns
• Compare and contrast words
19. COMPREHENSION
EMERGENT
• Identify characters
• Predicts what happens next
• Able to identify problems
• Able to retell some portion of
a story
BEGINNING
• Able to identify characters,
setting, problem
• Able to retell major points in a
text
• Use prior knowledge and
experiences to make meaning
20. WRITING
EMERGENT
• Scribbling to represent words
• Use pictures to communicate
ideas
• Understand that writing
communicates ideas
BEGINNING
• Inventive spelling
• Write more than one detail
• Topics are related to personal
experiences
• May be able to spell some high-frequency
words