Creative Teaching Press Building Blocks For Beginning Readers - Grades PreK-K

Building Blocks for Beginning Readers highlights 12 essential skills emergent readers must master before they can fully participate in a formal reading program. This resource explains how print is organized and presented in books and other printed materials, and provides tips and fun activities for reinforcing each concept of print. Children will differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters, examine how letters make words, explore how words make sentences and identify that a sentence begins with an uppercase letter and ends with punctuation. Children will also learn 1-to-1 correspondence and left-to-right and top-to-bottom orientation as they practice tracking print. Tips for evaluating childrens progress and an assessment tool that incorporates the 12 concepts of print are also included. For grades PreK-K. Contains 48 pages.