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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.
  

Name Writing

This is a simple thing to do with your child. The best way is just to let your child have as many experiences writing their name as possible. You can make this very fun. When there is steam on the window let them write their name in it. Use finger paints, markers, magnetic letters on the fridge, pens, crayons, and anything else that you could think of. Don't push them though this should be a fun thing to do with their parents.