Talking+Animals+(print+awareness)

Print Awareness Talking Animals 10/22/2009 Opening song: The more we get together/ read together


 * __Adult Aside __**: The skill we’ll look at today is Print Awareness. This means knowing that print has meaning. It includes knowing how to handle a book and seeing print all around us.

**Read Penguin** (start with book upside down)

 **__Adult Aside: __** It is important for children to know that what we write has meaning. Write notes to them even if they cannot read what you write. Draw pictures to help them understand what the writing means. AND encourage them to draw, scribble, and write. You may not be able to understand what it says. Don’t worry, they will tell you!

out signs and what they say. They’ll become aware that print is all around them.
 * Read Bunny Cakes **
 * Adult Aside: ** Writing was very important to that story! You can have your child “write” lists with pictures, perhaps of what they need to do in the morning to get ready. As you walk around, point

Print Awareness is the ability to notice printed language, knowing how to handle a book, and knowing how to follow the words on a page. It includes learning that writing in English follows basic rules, such as top-to-bottom, left-to-right, and the print on the page is to be read. Parents can encourage print awareness by showing children that print is all around them - on signs, on labels, in books and in magazines. Choose books that use print in a variety of ways and use your index finger to follow along as you read the words. Get sturdy books that your child can handle and allow children to turn the pages of the book as you read. 
 * __Adult Aside __****: **Researchers have found that about 95% of children’s attention is on the pictures. We can help them also look at the print by following under the words with a finger.
 * Sing Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Read Click, Clack, Moo **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Read Orange Pear Apple Bear **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Goodbye Song: Razzama Tazzama **