Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
Module 4
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Setting the Stage for Literacy Explorations
Handout 23: Using Print in the Environment
Print That Says What Things Are or Where Things Belong
- Names and symbols on cubbies and coat hooks
- Labels on shelves and containers used to hold materials
- Labels that name the interest areas
- Labels that name things (for example, stove on the toy stove in the house corner)
- Labels that say what items are stored on supply shelves or in closets
- Signs that state the number of children allowed in an area at one time
- A list of a few simple rules
- Instructions for the care of pets
- Signs made by children to protect their work (for example, Please do not touch our building)
- Bulletin boards (post notices to parents, interesting pictures, stories)
- Recipe charts
- Children's names on artwork (written by children or dictated to an adult)
- Descriptions of children's artwork (dictated to an adult who writes the child's words)
- Alphabet charts hung at children's eye-level
- Sign-up sheets (for example, for children to check out books from the classroom library)
- Surveys (in which children can answer a question by writing their names in the appropriate place. For example, What kind of fruit do you like to eat? Apples or Bananas?)
- Attendance charts (for example, where children can put name cards in a slot on the chart, write their names on a large piece of paper, or put checks next to their names on a list)
- Helper chart (so children can sign up for a classroom job)
- Message boards (to let children and adults send and receive messages)
- Language experience charts (where adults can write children's stories, recollections of a shared experience, poems, interesting words, comments, and ideas)
- Use English and home languages.
- Hang at children's eye level. Print large enough to be seen from across the room.
- Let children see you making signs so they will know why and how print is used.
- Invite children to make their own signs and labels.
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