Print Awareness in the Pocket Chart

Print awareness activities can be incorporated into your shared reading lesson. Shared reading is an opportunity for the teacher to model the reading process and strategies used by fluent readers.  In order to conduct a shared reading activity, the text must be large enough to be visible to students. This can include big books and charts. There are several things that you can teach during a shared reading lesson.

One of my favorite things to do for shared reading are poems, songs and predictable sentences in the pocket chart. I also use these sentences from the pocket chart to create a student book. You can use these student books during small group instruction or independent reading.

In the beginning of the school year, I use these predictable sentences to review print awareness skills and identify high frequency words.

Below, you will find a list of skills that you can review next time you use a poem, song or predictable sentences in your pocket chart or writing tablet.

1-Idendtify high frequency words.
2-Develop one-to-one correspondence.
   (On the pocket chart: Your helper of the day can use a pointer to help you read the text.)
   (When using student books: Students can point to each word as they read.)
3-Develop fluency.
4-Develop new vocabulary.
5-Read from left to right.
6-Identify and name uppercase letters.
7-Identify and name lowercase letters.
8-Identify and name letter sounds.
9-Identify a space.
10-Identify a period.
11-Identify a letter.
12-Identify a word.
13-Identify a sentence.
14-Identify where a word or sentence begins.
15-Identify where a word or sentence ends.
16-Identify word patterns.
17-Learn to turn the pages of a book.

I hope that you found this information useful.

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