Dear Class:

According the textbook chapter 6, “Preschool children’s emergent literacy behaviors can be categorized into eight specific areas: (a) Awareness of sound patterns and individual sounds in words, (b) associating sounds with letters of the alphabet, (c) focusing on specific features of letters and discriminating between the letters, (d) creating narratives, (e) developing a concept of book language, (f) developing a concept of how to read, (g) developing book-related concepts, and (h) developing a concept of how to write.” (Otto, 2008).
Here are some examples:
-Awareness of sound patterns and individual sounds in words: Preschoolers can follow the rhyming when they do the sound play as “Dog, Mop, Pot, and Dot”.
-Associating sounds with letters of the alphabet: Preschoolers can make connection with letters. For example: “A is for Apple, E is for Emma (classmate’s name)”.
-Focusing on specific features of letters and discriminating between the letters: Preschoolers may make mistakes when they read the letters, such as “ numbers 1, and upper letter I”. Parents and teacher should work on the special parts with each letter and number to identify the difference.
-Creating narratives: Preschoolers can tell the story in their own words or add on their own idea after the reading. Their story might be different from what the event or the book really about. They could have some parts missed or mixed order.
-Developing a concept of “book language”: Preschoolers can aware of the language using difference between oral and in-text format. For example, they need to learn how to use long sentence with correct grammar in written instead of free speaking style.
-Developing a concept of how to “read”: Preschoolers start to build the reading habit. They are able to share the reading experience with other children, teacher and parents.
-Developing book-related