Concepts+of+Print

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http://mason.gmu.edu/~cwallac7/TAP/TEST/literacy/1.html 1st: This site gives you ten ways that you can assess whether a student has concepts about print or not. [] 2nd: This link gives you a checklist for book orientation, directionality, and letter/word concepts. It is not as in depth as the link above. || PreK-2 PreK-2 K || [] 1st: A quick overview of the different concepts of print and strategies to assist in learning how to read. [|http://mason.gmu.edu/~cwallac7/TAP/TEST/literacy/1.htm] 2nd: An overview of concepts of print and their effects on children including family activities. [] 3rd: This article gives you a strategy for teaching kindergarteners word recognition through the use of colors. ||  || || A simple and quick teacher guide to assessing concepts of print. Provides a good reference of what questions to ask and how to administer the assessment. Lesson that can be used with any story or text to introduce and teach some concepts of print. || Leon || Concepts of Print Awareness || K || [|Concepts of Print Strategies for Parents/Teachers] || This word doc is an easy assessment to administer. On the assessment sheet it has instructor directions as well as space to write your observations. This was taken from Fayette County Schools. It is intended to be used for their kindergarten program. || Wilczak || [] || 3-8th || [] || This assessment would work for older students. I like it because the assessment asks how the reader learned to read. This gives valuable insite into the student. The assessment also can provide subgroup information monitoring and lesson planning. The only thing I would omit is the occupation. The strategy site is for 9-10th graders for concepts of print || Website gives some ideas of how to teach concepts about print. || Easy 10 question assessment || [] (explanation of assessment) || K-1 Preschool || [] (strategy K-1 or preschool) ||  || || K-1 ||  || This checklist focuses on the work of Marie Clay, and gives a nice little chart to show progress in the beginning, middle and end of the year. || Julie Gregor[|Concepts of Print] K-1 [|How to Teach Concepts of Print] Sam Shuster [] K-1 [] Kristi Miller http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/teacher/assessment/print/conceptsqt.html K-1
 * Student Name || Assessment || Grade Levels || Strategy || Comment ||
 * Dana Saenz || [[file:Concepts of Print (mlpp).pdf]] || pre-k to 3rd ||  || Once givien you can analyze the child's responses with your observations about the child's concept of print to determine their stregths and areas of instructional strategies. ||
 * Dana Saenz ||  || K-2 || Concepts of Print || This strategy talk about when writing a sentence to write each word in a different color showing the children the difference between a letter and word. Other suggetions are listed for teaching concept of print. ||
 * Jessica Johnson || __[]__ || K ||  || An assessment tool to determine it students know the basics of reading before moving into the actual reading process. It is a very quick and easy to do assessment. ||
 * Betsy Mueller || __[]__ || K ||  || This is a quick assessment to determine reading readiness in Kindergarten students. ||
 * Betsy Mueller || __[]__ || PreK-K || Concepts of Print || Great strategies for the preschool/kindergaraten teacher to use in the classroom. ||
 * Betsy Mueller || __[]__ || PreK || A great tool to assess preschool concepts of print. || Helps to determine readiness emergent literacy skills in preschoolers. ||
 * Traci Gabow || []
 * Lori Losinski || [] || K-1 || Assesses concepts of print
 * Jessica Fisk || [] || PreK-2 || [] || The first website provides an assessment tool for concepts about print and requires an A-C level text. The strategy website provides several interactive whiteboard activities for teaching students about concepts of print and phonemic awareness. ||
 * Julie Gregor || Concepts of Print || K-1 || [|Concepts of Print] || This website is good for different family activities and resources ||
 * Marietta
 * Marietta
 * Marisa Swartz || [] || 2-3 || [|Concept of Print] || Journal writing activities ||
 * Melissa Johnson ||  || Pre K-K || [] || Strategies for Preschool and Kindergarten teachers to start off the school year ||
 * Michelle
 * Kristy Trombley || [] || k || Concepts of print assessment || This is a simple concepts of print assessment and it provides the time of year to give each part of the assessment. ||
 * Jessica Hebel || [|Parents w/ children] || Early Elem || Family activities to do with your child. || Early work with print is beneficial. These are ideas for parents to use with their children. They do not cost money, rather give ideas for resources found right at home. ||
 * Carey Thomsen || [|Concept of Print Assessment] || K-3 || [|Concepts about Print Ideas]
 * Melinda Wavra || [|Concepts of Print Assessment] || K-3 || [|Concepts of Print Instructional Strategies] || Great site that has it all from assessment to strategies! ||
 * Melissa Johnson || [] || K ||  || An assessment of each child’s level of understanding, and sometimes misunderstandings of theseconventions helps teachers know what their students are attending to in print and what still needs to be learned. ||
 * Kelly Gartrell || [] || Early Childhood || [] || PowerPoint Providing Strategies for preschoolers and preschoolers with disabilities. ||
 * Jessica Johnson ||  || Early Elementary || [] || A powerpoint presentation about the concepts of print. Includes research, assessment ideas, and strategies. ||
 * Stephanie Hayward || [[file:Concepts of Print.pdf]] || K-1 || [[file:Alphabet_Strategies.pdf]] || User friendly assessment for K-1 along with parent friendly standards for alphabet and concept of print for K-1. ||
 * Joanne Haberkamp || []
 * Don Mackewich || [] || Kindergarten || This is a good assessment to give to Kindergarteners in the Spring. It is on Little Miss Muffet. || This is a nice, short, five page PDF form. It also lists the reading benchmarks that apply to this assessment . ||
 * Elizabeth McKenna || The concept of print assessment uses // Marie Clay Concepts of Print books, __Follow Me Moon__ and __No Shoes__. //
 * Elizabeth McKenna ||  || K-1 || [[file:Using Predictable Stories and Poems to Develop Concepts of Print.pdf]] || This is an awesome lesson idea for using text that students are familar with to teach concepts about print and also beginning vocabulary and work attack strategies. ||
 * Jan Allardyce || [[file:Be a Sentence.docx]] || K-1 || Strategy for concept ot print for making sentences. ||  ||
 * Jan Allardyce || [[file:Cut up Sentences.docx]] || K-1 || Assessment for concept of print. ||  ||

Kristi Miller Kindergarten http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/7017.aspx