Early Literacy Practices that Work!
Across
- 3. This early literacy practice engages children through books and stories
- 5. The ability to hear and play with the small sounds in words
- 8. Knowing and recognizing the letters, their names and their sounds
- 10. This early literacy practice engages children through shapes, letters and tactile skills
- 11. Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow written words on a page
Down
- 1. What children learn about language, books and reading before learning to read
- 2. An interest in and enjoyment of books and reading
- 4. Knowing the names of things
- 5. This early literacy practice engages children through imagination
- 6. The ability to describe things/events and to tell stories with a beginning, middle and end
- 7. This early literacy practice engages children through song
- 9. This early literacy practice engages children through conversation