Early Literacy By: Mrs. Wing

Table of Contents Why teach Early Literacy? What does Early Literacy Look Like? Early Literacy Skills Phonological Awareness Definitions Early Literacy Activities Resources Early Literacy Activities Websites

Why Teach Early Literacy? Strengthen listening and speaking skills Help students become familiar with English vocabulary and sentence structures Develop a love of reading and writing Develop basic book knowledge Develop Phonological Awareness

What does Early Literacy Look Like? Small groups Activities vary depending on skill level All members participate Singing Ex: Down by the bay (rhyming), blowing big bubbles (alliteration and phonemic manipulation) Hands on Games, matching activities, sound boxes Reading and writing Teacher and Student Modelling (Teacher) and Mirroring (Student) Assessment (formative and summative) Lots of repetition and review Collaboration with Classroom Teacher

Early Literacy Skills Vocabulary Alphabet Knowledge Print Awareness Narrative Skills Phonological Awareness

Vocabulary Especially important to EAL learners Resources for building vocabulary Books (fiction and non-fiction) Objects Pictures Songs Conversations Games Computers Anything Early Literacy Skills

Alphabet Knowledge Recite letter names Discriminate between upper and lower case letters Associate letter shapes with names Sequence the alphabet Write letters Associate letters with sounds Early Literacy Skills

Print Awareness Directionality of print Top to bottom Left to right Discriminate between letters, words, and sentences Letters make words and words make sentences (only when put together in a meaningful way) Print not picture that is most important Point to words (one to one correspondence) Print awareness is developed through repeated exposure to all types of literature Early Literacy Skills

Narrative Skills Understand and tell stories Describe things and events Sequence events Ex: telling what happened at a birthday party Early Literacy Skills

Phonological Awareness Activities Word Awareness Syllables Rhyme Alliteration Phonemic Segmentation Blending of Phonemes and Syllables Phonemic Manipulation Early Literacy Skills

Phonological Awareness Rhyme Identification Rhyme Generation Word Segmentation Syllable Blending On-set Rime Blending Initial Phoneme Deletion Initial Phoneme Change Initial Phoneme Segmentation Final Phoneme Change Initial and Medial Phoneme Segmentation Phoneme Identification Medial Phoneme Change Initial, Medial, and Final Phoneme Segmentation Definitions Phonological Awareness

Phonological Awareness Definitions Phonological Awareness (auditory) The ability to attend to the sounds of language separate from its meaning The understanding that speech is made up of organized sounds (ex. sentences are made up of words put together in a meaningful way) Phonemic Awareness (auditory) The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in written words Phonemes (auditory) Individual sounds (44 in the English Language) Phonics (visual) Connecting letters with sounds Phonological Awareness

Definitions & Examples Phonemic Segmentation Breaking up words into sounds Cat = /c/ /a/ /t/ How many and what sounds do you hear? Blending of Phonemes and Syllables Individual syllables or sounds are pushed together to make a whole word /c/ /a/ /t/ = cat Phonemic Manipulation Sounds in words are moved from one position to another Additions, deletions, substitutions, and reversals Phonological Awareness

Definitions & Examples Rhyme Words that start differently but end the same cat/hat Alliteration Repeating the same initial sound in a string of 2 or more words that are close together Bouncing baby boy Segmentation Breaking down linguistic units into smaller parts Sentence ˃ word ˃ syllable ˃ onset rime ˃ phoneme Phonological Awareness

Definitions & Examples Word Awareness Breaking sentences into words The – man – went – home. Breaking compound words into their meaningful parts Base - ball Syllables Words are broken into syllables or beats. Per - son Phonological Awareness

Early Literacy Activities Websites http://www.literatureforliterature.ecsd.net/st rategies.htm http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/e_liter acy/ http://www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net/resources 1.htm http://www.songsforteaching.com/phonemic awareness.htm http://www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net/

Early Literacy Resources Sounds Abound (LinguiSystems, Inc.) Phonics: Games & Learning Activities (Teacher Created Materials, Inc.) A Sound Way (Love and Reilly) Animated Literacy (Jim Stone) Rhyming Binder (Patti Lawrence)