Book Handling/ Knowledge

I know that it is difficult to know what you should talk about while reading to your child. This is the idea behind this blog. Here are a few ideas of some skills that they should be practicing.


Handling

• Holding a book in the upright position
• Understand that sentences go from left to right and then from top to bottom.
  
• Turns the pages lefts to right.
  
• Reads left page before right page.

Surface Feature Knowledge

• Uses the words: cover, page, story, title, spine, author and illustrator.
  
• Uses book title and cover illustration to make a prediction of what will happen in the story.
• Understand that the book is written by an author and the pictures are made by an illustrator.

Print and Punctuation Knowledge

• Knows what a letter is.(can point to it when asked)
• Knows what a word is. (can point to it when asked)
• Participates in reading when it is predictable.
• Understands what punctuation is and can point to a comma, period, question mark, and exclamation point.