This presentation was a great refresher on the stages of literacy development. It really helped to put things in perspective to look back and think about what each stage looks like.
I remember my very early literacy experiences as quite enjoyable, my grandmother and mother read to me daily and this instilled a love of reading for me as I grew up. This is why I feel that repeated, positive exposure to text at a young age is a predictor of success in reading, along with language development, and making reading and writing functional. If a child does not have the language development to process the information, the act of receiving language through text will not be meaningful and reading and writing need to be recognized as a means of exchanging information to be engaging.
The assessments mentioned in presentation are some of the same assessments that I've just completed with my Kindergartners. You can definitely tell which students have more exposure and experience handling books at home when you assess Concepts of Print with a five year old. Some of my students know all of the pre-primer Dolch words and some do not know which page to start reading on. This is why differentiation starts early and is so important.
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