What Students Learn about Language Printed symbols convey meaning. Letters of the alphabet, letter combinations and sight words are learned in meaningful contexts. Knowledge of graphophonics is reinforced and extended during reading of familiar language. Context clues often assist the prediction and reading of printed language. Letters can be printed or typed in various styles.
Efficient readers identify letters printed in many variations.
Adaptations and Applications Incorporate classroom labels and other print samples in word and letter games and activities. Details such as colours and quantities could be added to word labels. Labels could be printed in students' first languages to emphasize similarity of language functions across cultures. Students could add words from environmental print materials to their word banks and dictionaries. Take beginning readers and writers on walks in the immediate community to observe and record print samples.