English Language Arts and Reading.1.2.D

The student is expected to

demonstrate print awareness by identifying the information that different parts of a book provide;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Hand students a book, holding it vertically so that the spine faces the student, and ask the following questions:

  • Where is the front of the book? (Student should point.)
  • Where is the back of the book? (Student should point.)
  • Where is the title of this book? (Student should point.)
  • Open the book to where the story begins. (Student should open the book to the title page or the first page of the story.)
  • Open the book to page _____. (Student should properly flip through the pages to find the page.)
  • Show me the first letter in the word ______. Show me the last letter in the word _____. (Student should point.)
  • Show me a period. Show me a question mark. Show me an exclamation mark. Show me dialogue. (Student should point to these on a page.)
  • Show me the table of contents (Student should point). What does it do? (Student should say, “The table of contents helps me know where to find important topics and what page they are on.”)
  • Show me the glossary. (Student should point.) What is the purpose of the glossary? (Student should say, “It helps me learn hard words from the story.”)
Print awareness is the understanding of the characteristics and uses of print including the following print concepts: Printed text conveys meaning, sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces, texts have unique print features that influence meaning.