Early Literacy Practices that Work!

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