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Print Awareness Sequence

This document outlines developmental phases in print awareness from birth to grade 1. It describes the progression of skills such as recognizing books by cover, understanding directionality of print, identifying letters and words, understanding basic punctuation and capitalization. Key skills are identified for different age groups including birth to 3 years, pre-K, and kindergarten. The document is intended to help assess a child's print awareness abilities and determine what phase they have mastered, are still developing, or have not yet achieved.

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Print Awareness Sequence

This document outlines developmental phases in print awareness from birth to grade 1. It describes the progression of skills such as recognizing books by cover, understanding directionality of print, identifying letters and words, understanding basic punctuation and capitalization. Key skills are identified for different age groups including birth to 3 years, pre-K, and kindergarten. The document is intended to help assess a child's print awareness abilities and determine what phase they have mastered, are still developing, or have not yet achieved.

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Developmental Phases in Print Awareness

Child:

Age: ____ Grade:

___ Recognizes specific books by cover


___ Pretends to read books
___ Understands that books are handled in particular ways
___ Begins attending to specific print, such as letters in names
___ Uses increasingly purposeful scribbling
___ Occasionally seems to distinguish between drawing and writing
___ Produces some letter-like forms and scribbles with some features of English writing

Birth to 3

___ Knows that alphabet letters are a special category of visual graphics that can be
individually named
___ Recognizes print in local environment
___ Understands that the story is in the print, not the picture
___ Understands that different text forms are used for different types of print (e.g., a list for
groceries is different than the list on a menu)
___ Displays reading and writing attempts, calling attention to self: Look at my story.
___ Writes (scribbles) message as part of playful activity
___ Recognizes if the book is upside down

Pre-K

___ Knows the parts of a book and their functions


___ Finds front and back of book
___ Understands that the story is in the print, not the picture
___ Knows where to start readingtop left
___ Knows direction to readleft-to-right; top-to-bottom
___ Points to each word while adult reads (voice-print match)
___ Shows you the first part of the story; the last part of the story
___ Demonstrates familiarity with a number of types or genres of texts (e.g., storybooks,
expository texts, poems, newspapers, and everyday print such as signs, notices, labels)

___ Understands you read the left page before the right
___ Understands and uses basic punctuation and capitalization
___ Finds a capital letter that corresponds to a lower case letter and vice versa
___ Knows when letters of a familiar word are out of order
___ Knows if a word is upside down
___ Produces a variety of types of compositions (e.g., stories, descriptions, journal entries)
showing appropriate relationships between printed text, illustrations, and other graphics

Key:

+ always does (mastered)


+/- sometimes does (instructional)
- never does

Completed by:
Position:

Grade 1

Date:

*Adapted from Marie Clays Concepts About Print Test and Starting Out Right, Burns, Griffin, & Snow,Eds. National
Academy Press, Washington, DC.

c:forms book/VI-17
Developmental Phases in Print Awareness
Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia 07/2000 May be copied for use in schools.

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