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Help My Child to Read: 10 Print Salient Books for Your Emerging Reader
Did you know that print salient books are helpful for increasing print awareness? What is Salient Print? Salient Print is print that is purposefully noticeable, interesting and gets children’s attention. Children want to focus on the print. This...
Help My Child to Read: What’s the Pre-alphabet Stage?
Help My Child to Read: What’s the Pre-alphabet Stage In this emergent literacy stage, children identify words based on visual features and context. Photo Credit: second_mouse This is also known as the visual cue phase. Children have not...
Help My Child to Read: What is Emergent Literacy?
Emergent literacy is a general term used to describe the behaviors, skills, and knowledge that are present BEFORE children can read by themselves. Since the development of reading is complex, experts often describe its development as happening in...
Help My Child to Read Series: What’s the Alphabetic Principle?
Help My Child Read Series: What’s the Alphabetic Principle? Photo Credit: dmelchordiaz A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled, The Matthew Effect and Literacy – What’s the Connection? In it, I explained how the phrase, “the rich get...