Print Awareness

Learning Outcome

To learn to read, children need to have print awareness. That is, they need to understand how books work and that there are conventions of print.

This lesson will

bulletdescribe print awareness and its importance
bulletexplain how children gain print awareness
bulletprovide activities to promote print awareness
bulletlists resources and web-links for practitioners


Lesson Plan
Print Awareness
Gaining Print Awareness
Print Referencing

Emergent Literacy Development Guide
Activity Ideas
Children’s Book List
Teacher's Resources
Quiz (coming soon)
Bibliography
Links