Print Awareness
Pretest: 10/10 Posttest:
8/10
As an
experienced reader I have never really taken the time to think about how people
learn to read. From my point of view it is common sense that we read from top
to bottom and from left to right. Children and adults that are learning to read
for the first time need to learn the way in which we read. They also need to
understand that oral language can be translated into the written language. The
text that we read is organized in a specific way. For example, the beginning of
a story is in the first page of a book and the end of the story is at the back
of the book. The sentences flow from one sentence to the next to ensure that
the reader can comprehend what is going on. It is also extremely important for
young learners to become aware of how to handle books. We need to be teaching
our children how to turn the page without ripping off the entire page or
crinkling the edges so the book looks like it is 6 years old when in fact it is
brand new.
I found it
extremely interesting that books with predictable and patterned text helps
expand print awareness. As a future educator I would want my students to become
excellent readers and understand the structures of the written word. It would
be helpful to understand different ways to communicate this to my children. I
would like to know how to help a struggling reader with little motivation to do
well. One question I have for this subtopic is how do teachers assess print
awareness? Does it have its own category or is it classified under a handful of
reading strategies?
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