Print Awareness Activities
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Print awareness is an emerging understanding of the interaction between oral language and written words.
Print awareness in SEEL involves some of following objectives:
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Children understand the relationship between printed and spoken words.
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Children communicating with pre-made print, sight words, or symbols associated with words.
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Using familiar whole words, children communicate through matching, identifying, naming, or “reading.”
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Using the initial letter or other symbols, children know some sound symbol associations and letter names.
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Children can pretend to read familiar stories.
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Children can “read” repetitive, predictable print elements.
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Children can use printed symbols or words for a various purposes.
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Children can play with components of words, such as syllables or onset and rhyme, and be able to ask or “read” what word has been made.
SEEL’s objectives with print awareness are achieved through various methods. Some of these methods are:
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Focused and engaging activities that encourage children to explore the relationship between print and oral language.
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Giving children a variety of activities in which to interact with print.
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Providing opportunities for children to manipulate print.
- Using predictable print elements in a variety of engaging activities.
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