Helping Every Student Learn Concepts about Print
Interventions and Strategies
Strategy 1: Environmental Print Reading
Purpose-- Allows children to read familiar print. Examples-- Students create an I Can Read booklet. They can include favorite foods, street signs, a trip to the grocery store, favorite toys, etc. Students choose their own topics and cut and paste pictures into their books. Strategy 3: The Language Experience Approach Purpose-- Uses children's experiences to create their own personalized reading materials. Students can see how their speech looks in printed form. Example-- Create through the group experience chart or the individual language experience. Children see their own story produced in book form. Strategy 5: The Individual Language Experience Story Purpose-- Provides students opportunity to read about themselves, talk about experiences and record these experiences in print to learn about concepts of print. Examples-- Children tell their story on a recorder and then listen to them to edit. When children have revised, turn the audio recordings into paper copies. Then, turn the papers into books. These books can be added to the classroom library for other students to read. Strategy 7: Framing Print Purpose-- This strategy helps students grasp that a word is the same no matter where they see it. Examples-- Read a large print book and frame words as you read. When you finish reading, take words and frame individual letters discussing with students how words are made up of letters. Strategy 9: Print Context Transfer Purpose-- Help students recognize various print concepts, words, and letters in other print settings outside of the big book or chart paper. Examples-- Copy a big book onto sentence strips. Have the students match the sentence strips directly with the big book and place them in order. Strategy 11: Verbal Punctuation Purpose-- Help students recognize punctuation in a fun and engaging way. Examples-- Assign a sound to each punctuation mark. After modeling, reread the sentences and have the students make to sounds for each punctuation mark as you read. Strategy 13: Letter Manipulatives Purpose-- Help students grasp the concept of letter versus the concept of word. Examples-- Give students a stack of word cards from the shared reading text that you are currently reading. Using the word card, they match the magnetic letters to each letter of the word. |
Strategy 2: Interactive Read Alouds
Purpose-- Develops further skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, and comprehension. Examples-- Read books with enlarged text. Highlight print concepts before, during, and after reading. Model book reading skills for students to observe. Strategy 4: The Group Experience Chart Purpose--Create shared classroom experiences to show important language concepts, print concepts, and words. Examples--On chart paper, have students create a shared experience (field trip, experiment, guest speaker) by dictating a story. As they dictate the story you record on the chart paper. Throughout the year, refer back to it, reading the story along with the students reading sentences of the story. Strategy 6: Voice Pointing Purpose-- Draws the eyes of the reader into contact with the print. Examples-- Read a big book or enlarged copy of a story and use a pointer to point to each word as you read. Read and point slowly so the students can follow as you read. Strategy 8: Masking or Highlighting Print Purpose-- Emphasizes to young readers how to look at print and what to look for on a printed page. Examples-- Use sticky notes to cover up various concepts of print, such as, words, letters or punctuation. Students then make predictions as to what is behind the sticky notes. This activity directs students attention to the individual print feature. Strategy 10: Error Detection Purpose-- Students match what is on the page to what is said. Examples-- Substitute words in certain text using a pocket chart. Students have to figure out what is wrong with the sentence as you read and correct the mistake. Strategy 12: Shared Reading Purpose-- Allow students to observe the teacher reading and modeling print concepts and guide their eyes towards important parts of print. Examples-- Talk through print concepts while reading an interesting book aloud. Ask questions and allow students to join in on repeated phrases. Also, have students predict at certain parts of the book at what will happen next. |