Academics
Preschool
Early Literacy
Early literacy is comprised of print concepts, introduction to phonics, and letter and word recognition. In addition, processing and predicting story elements, applying characters or situations in their own worlds influence comprehension skills.
Important literacy skills practiced continually may include:
- Understanding that words are read from left to right and top to bottom.
- Pointing to words to demonstrate understanding the print carries meaning.
- Recognizing and producing rhyming words.
- Blending and segmenting syllables and sounds to form words.
- Identifying the first and last sounds in spoken words.
- Recognizing and naming upper and lower case letters, especially letters in their first name.
- Recognizing the sounds associated with letters.
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