PRINT AWARENESS

Print awareness is:

• recognizing written language and understanding how it's used

• understanding that print is made with a pen or pencil

• analyzing students' printed handwriting

• none of the above

Print awareness:

• develops faster in girls than in boys

• develops through child/adult interaction with various forms of print

• is present at the time of a child's birth

• none of the above

Which of the following is NOT an example of print awareness?

• knowing that print proceeds from top to bottom on a page

• knowing that print proceeds from left to right on a page

• knowing that print is easier than cursive handwriting for most children

• knowing that print is an expression of written language

Children's performance on print awareness tasks:

d. none of the above

• cannot predict future reading achievement

• can be a predictor of future reading achievement

• is a way of measuring how fast they can read

• none of the above

Activities that help children become aware of print include:

• being read to by adults

• playing with magnetic letters

• pretend reading

• all of the above

Children with print awareness are able to:

• count the number of words in a sentence

• distinguish between a word and a letter on a page

• recognize the logo for McDonald's on a billboard

• all of the above

_______ does NOT encourage development of print awareness:

• teaching a lesson about the parts of a book (cover, title page, author, illustrator)

• using a "big book" to read a story aloud

• leading the song, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

• helping a student write his name

Activities that help promote print awareness in children include:

• labeling objects in a classroom

• reading aloud to students

• pointing out punctuation marks at the end of sentences

• all of the above

Children who begin school without print awareness:

• tend to be better readers than other students

• will never learn to read

• may be at risk for reading difficulty

• none of the above

Pretending to write a shopping list:

• can help a child develop print awareness

• may be bad if the child does not know the alphabet

• has no effect on learning

• none of the above