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Preliterate Stage
(Preliterate-Gentry)
(Prephonetic-Beers)
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ages 1-7, pretends to read, write and spell, emergent period of literacy development |
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directionality |
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features of print |
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predictability of text |
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concept of word |
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alphabet knowledge |
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awareness of spoken sounds |
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vocabulary and concept development |
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Activities
(from James Beers in Spelling Research and Instruction, p. 57)
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Read aloud and often. Use big books. |
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Have students learn and use the alphabet song. |
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Place alphabet strips on desks. |
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Encourage students to draw and to write. |
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Use dictations and experience charts to show matches between spoken words and printed words. |
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Have students echo- and choral-read dictations and poems. |
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Play rhyming games. |
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Put words around the room as labels for objects. |
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Have students listen to and create pattern stories and poems. |
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Have students match picture cards with beginning consonants. |
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Have students begin to develop picture/word banks. |
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| Sorts |
- Concept Sorts for categorization (Seasons, Furniture, Animals, Fruits and Vegetables, Clothing (striped, plain, seasonal, etc.))
- Alphabet Sort(lower case and capital, various fonts)
- Begin picture sorts that focus on beginning sounds.
- When beginning-consonant sorts are successful, move on to final-consonant sorts.
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| Take and Make Activity |
Alphabet Concentration |
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Walters & Kehus, 1998
www.oakland.edu/~mikehus/wordstudy.htm
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