Teaching literacy Pre-K to 3

1. Grades Prekindergarten-3

2. Stages of Literacy Development
1. Awareness and Exploration ( Pre-K)
2. Emergent Reader (Pre-K to Kindergarten)
3. Early/Beginner Reader (Kindergarten-Grade 1)
4. Transitional Reader (Grades 1 and 2)
5. Fluent Reader (Grade 3 and above)
(Laureate Education Inc., 2014)

3. Assessing Students
 Different assessments can be used to gather data from
students in different areas of reading.
 Assessments should measure:
Phonological and Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Oral language
(Reutzel & Cooter, 2016)

4. Literacy Matrix
Narrative Informational
Semiotic
Linguistic

5. Literacy Matrix
The Literacy Matrix aids educator in selecting books at
different difficulties for students. Texts should fit in
multiple sections of the matrix in order to provide
students with a wide range of selection of texts.

6. Selecting Texts
Using the Literacy Matrix, select texts with similar topic
or theme. Texts should be a mixture of informational
and narrative, fiction and nonfiction. Texts should be
of interest of all readers and should have a range of
different reading ability.

7. Creating a lesson plan
1. Use data to design the lesson plan to meet the
learners’ needs (this is when the data from the
assessments comes in handy).
2. Identify standards: national, state, district, and
common core.
3. Identify multiple objectives that are going to assess
the outcome of the lesson.

8. ……Lesson Plan….
Integrate more than one skill into the lesson.
With young readers, practice print concept, phonemic
awareness, sound deletion and rhyming.
Picture walks, identifying parts of the book, and
predictions are skills that can be used every time
during a read aloud or shared reading.
Engage readers- ask them questions, have students
read along or model good practices.

9. Assessing the lesson
Design an assessment that will measure the outcome
of the learning objective(s).
Did the students masters the object?
How can students provide evidence of learning?
How can the lesson and objectives be extended?
Use the data from the assessment to analyze student
outcome.
What can be done differently to improve the lesson
and/or student mastery?

10. Credits
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014a). Analyzing and selecting text [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014b). Classroom demonstration: Emergent literacy [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014c). Developing language and literacy [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014d). Informational text in the early years [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014e). Interactive Perspective: Read aloud [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2014f). Interactive Perspective: Shared reading [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B. (2016). Strategies for reading assessment and instruction: Helping every child succeed (5th
ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson