Print Awareness includes noticing print, knowing how to handle a book, and knowing how to follow the written word on the page.
What Can You Do?
- Watch this fun link: A monk learns how to use a new technology: a book!
Children have to learn all about books too!
- Read board books that your child can handle.
- Sometimes point to the words as you read.
Suggested books include:
Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow
Skippyjon Jones by Judith Schachner
Silly Little Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Any book!
Read about Narrative Skills or return to 6 Early Literacy Skills overview.