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| the print of everyday life; the signs, symbols, numbers and colors of all around us (ie., street signs, company logos) |
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| the recognition that phonemes (sounds) are represented by graphemes (letters and letter pairs) and that graphemes represent phonemes. It is NOT simply knowledge of the letters of the alphabet or letter names. |
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| Knowing how to handle a book and how books "work" (ie., front and back cover, left to right sweep) |
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| when readers read left to right, top to bottom with return sweep and they are recognizing (maybe whispering) a word for each word in the text, they are tracking the text. Some beginning (emergent) readers allow their voices (when they are whisper reading) to get ahead of the text making predictions about what the text says and skip words as they go. For these readers, having them 'finger-point' to each word as they go, matching a word in the text with their voices, often helps them learn to track the text. |
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