Looking at print

Students are learning concepts about print (how to hold a book, reading left to right, pointing one to one, finding known words, exploring punctuation, etc).  Many of these early literacy behaviors are modeled by both you and I as we read to the kids.  They mimic whatever it is that we do and this is a critical time to praise the approximation and not correct their attempts.  The kids are not yet able to use the print to read these books accurately and that is ok.  We are really looking to see if they are creating stories that make sense and connect page to page.