1. Early Literacy
By: Mrs. Wing

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Early Literacy Activities Websites
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17. 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)