Creative Curriculum

Components of Literacy
Increased Vocabulary and Language
o Informal conversations
o Songs, rhymes, fingerplays, or movement activities
o First hand experiences
o Read alouds listening to books and talking about ne ords
!honological "areness
o Is hearing and understanding the different sounds of spoken
language
o #ral language can be broken don into individual parts $ separate
sounds and syllables
o !honics is connecting a printed symbol ith a sound $ phonological
aareness is hearing sounds
o %ncourage phonological aareness through&
'oin in ith songs, games, and rhymes,
(ake up nonsense ords or silly names
)lap along ith each ord or syllable of a song or a rhyme
*otice that ords begin ith the same sound
+noledge of !rint
o !rint carries a message
o %ach spoken ord can be ritten don and read
o !rint follos conventions ,left to right, punctuation etc-.
o /ooks have common characteristics ,front, back, author etc-.
o %ncourage knoledge of print through&
!oint to a printed label
(ake lists in the dramatic play area
Read a big book and demonstrate characteristics of book
Letters and 0ords
o 1nderstand that a letter is a symbol representing one or more
sounds in the %nglish language
o Letter symbols can be grouped to form ords
o 0ords have meaning
o %ncourage understanding of letters and ords by&
1se alphabet materials to spell name
"ttempt to rite a message in dramatic play area
!oint to a letter and name it
)omprehension
o Is understanding the meaning of spoken and ritten languages
o !ause at the end of a sentence hen reading
o "sk open2ended 3uestions
o 4elp children make connections to prior experience
o %ncourage comprehension by&
Retelling a story
Summari5e a story ,hat happened to so and so in the
story6.
7alk about their experiences in relation to a story
Re2enact the story
1nderstanding /ooks and #ther 7exts
o #ffer a variety of books
o #ffer a variety of reading materials
Signs
(enus
Letters, shopping lists
*espapers
Invitations
(essages
'ournals
4o does your story start6
Literacy as a source of en8oyment
o %n8oyment is a great motivator
o 7he more children read the more en8oyable reading becomes