Early English Reading 1: Leveling the Playing Field

This video -- and the two that follow -- show how to level the literacy playing field for young students in preschool and Head Start.

As we know, some students enter preschool or Head Start with a great deal of pre-literacy awareness, e.g., the connections between sounds and letters, letter names, alphabetic principle, conventions of print, etc.

Many students who come to school without these skills don't get them fast enough and fall behind their peers from more literate homes. Special education and Response to Intervention (RtI) attempt to help, but it is better to recognize and alleviate the inequity at the very beginning.

This video and the two that follow show a way to do this. The girl in the video learned to read this way at 3-4 years old. This was her first time looking at the charts since her early experience.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Literacy
• Words
• in
• Color
• preliteracy
• alphabetic
• principle
• phonemic
• awareness
• phonological