Education week 4 assignment

Responding

Responding

Later

Exploring

Earlier

Exploring

Building

Building

Middle

NOT APPLICABLE

Initiates looking at and talking about books, listening to and talking about stories, singing songs, or playing rhyming games

Building

Later

NOT APPLICABLE

Extends literacy activities by retelling a story, drawing pictures about a story, or acting out a story

Integrating

Earlier

NOT APPLICABLE

Initiates literacy activities that relate to classroom experiences as well as to own experiences or interests

Attends or responds to people or things in basic ways

Plays with books;

and

Responds to other literacy activities

Attends briefly to a familiar adult reading books, singing songs, or saying rhymes

Looks at books on own briefly,

or

Chooses to join reading, singing, or rhyming activities led by an adult

Looks at books page by page,

or

Participates, from beginning to end, in listening to stories, singing songs, or playing rhyming games, when supported by an adult

Possible Examples

· Quiets to the sound of a familiar voice.

· Moves in response to an approach by a familiar adult.

· Orients to an adult’s face or voice during a caregiving routine.

Possible Examples

· Interacts with a cloth or board book by holding or mouthing it.

· Pats a textured board book.

· Vocalizes or laughs in response to an adult singing and gesturing a simple finger-play song, such as, “Pat-a-Cake” or “Los cinco deditos,” [“Five Little Fingers,” a finger play in Spanish].

Possible Examples

· Looks at pictures in a book for a short time while a familiar adult reads the book.

· Reaches to turn the page of a board book as a familiar adult talks or signs about the pictures on the page.

· Uses simple hand movements to participate during a familiar song

or rhyme with a familiar adult.

· Touches textured or tactile content on pages of a book as an adult is reading the book.

Possible Examples

· Joins a group doing a simple finger play led by an adult.

· Points at a picture when joining an adult who is reading a book, newspaper, or tablet.

· Picks up a book and looks at pictures, turns a few pages, and then drops the book to go play.

Possible Examples

· Pretends to read a book from start to finish.

· Explores a book with Braille and tactile content with hands.

Possible Examples

· Asks questions or communicates about why something happened in

Possible Examples

· Uses flannel-board pieces to retell parts of a story after story time.

· Retells a familiar story to a peer while pretending to read from a book.

· Uses a communication device to tell the sequence of events in a favorite story.

· Pretends to be a character from a story, using props.

Possible Examples

· Chooses to read a book related to a particular theme or interest (e.g., dinosaurs or fairies).

· Asks for help finding a book about bugs after a nature walk.

· Participates, with others, in using the computer

to create a story about a class trip.

· Makes up own version of rhyming song with peers’ names.

LLD 5

Interest in Literacy

LLD 5