2. DOMAINS OF LITERACY IN THE
K TO 12 CURRICULUM
1.ORAL LANGUAGE
2.ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE
3.BOOK AND PRINT ORIENTATION
4.VOCABULARY
5.FLUENCY
6.HANDWRITING
3. DOMAINS OF LITERACY IN THE
K TO 12 CURRICULUM
7. HANDWRITING
8. COMPOSING
9. GRAMMAR AWARENESS
10. READING COMPREHENSION
11. STUDY SKILLS
4. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Before teaching children how to read, they must know
first how to use a book even without reading.
1. IDENTIFY THE PARTS OF A BOOK; FRONT
AND BACK COVER, AND ITS PAGES.
5. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Before teaching children how to read, they must know
first how to use a book even without reading.
2. KNOWING THAT A BOOK HAS AN
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR AND TELLING
WHAT THEY DO.
6. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Before teaching children how to read, they must know
first how to use a book even without reading.
3. HOLDING THE BOOK RIGHT SIDE UP
4. FLIPPING THE PAGES OF THE BOOK
SEQUENTIALLY, ONE PAGE AT A TIME.
7. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Before teaching children how to read, they must know
first how to use a book even without reading.
5. KNOWING WHERE A STORY BEGINS AND ENDS.
6. CONSISTENTLY LOOKING AT THE LEFT PAGE FIRST
BEFORE LOOKING AT THE RIGHT PAGE.
7. REALIZING THAT THE MESSAGE OF MOST BOOK IS IN
THE PRINT AND NOT IN THE PICTURES
8. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
When a child has correct book
handling behaviours and shows
some knowledge of print concepts,
he is ready to learn to read.
9. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
15-item test / The child scores 1 point in every
correct response.
10. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
Ask the child to get one book then ask:
1. Point to the front of the book.
2. Point to the back of the book.
3. Open the book. Point to the top of the page.
4. Point to the bottom of the page.
11. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
5. Open to a page with a picture. Point to the top of
the picture.
6. Point to the bottom of the picture.
7. I want to read the story. Point to where I should
begin.
12. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
8. I want to continue reading the story. Show me
which way I should read.
13. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
9. (Run your pointer finger as you read aloud to the
end of the line then say) Point where I should
continue reading.
10. Point to the end of the story
11. What is this for? (point to period)
14. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
12. What is this for? (Point to a question mark)
13. Point where should I read first.
14. Point to the first word of the story.
15. Point to the last word of the story
15. BOOK / PRINT ORIENTATION
Book and Print Test Assessment Tool
A score below 6 points means he needs more
experience with books and prints.
A score of 6 points and above means he is ready to
learn to read.
16. PHONEMES - any of the
distinct unit of sound of the
language.
17. PHONEMIC ISOLATION-
BEING ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE INDIVIDUUAL SOUNDS
OW WORDS SUCH AS /D/ IS THE BEGINNING OF THE
WORD DOG AND /G/ IS THE ENDING SOUND OF IT.
19. PHONEMIC IDENTITY – Being able to recognize common
sounds in different words.
Ex: PICK - PLAY
What is their common sound?
20. PHONEME CATEGORIZATION – is a way to practice
matching sounds or picking out the sound that doesn’t
belong to the group.
Ex: sat, mat, rug
Which does not belong to the group?
Cat, cow, fish
21. PHONEME BLENDING
The ability to blend individual sounds into a word
Sand - /sss/, /aaa/, /nnn/, /ddd/
Bag
Red
bend
23. PHONEME DELETION
Involves having pupils manipulate spoken words by
deleting specific phonemes
NUT take away /n/ is UT
HAT take away /h/ is at
PIG take away /p/ is ig
24.
25. This activity aims to develop
book/ print orientation and
alphabet knowledge
