KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PRINT

(Suitable for very young learners)

Observe your MSTs classroom and general practices you see
around the school. Discuss each statement below in the
context of what you observe and support with a photo and a
reference to reading when possible.

Does the teacher remind the children that we read English

from left to right / top to bottom? How? When? Does she
do this in reading and writing?

No, the students already knows that so, the teacher dont remind
them. But in shared reading and writing, I saw her while reading
modeling reading and writing from left to write.

What features of a book does she ask the children to

identify when reading?
(Author, title, illustrator, index, table of contents, blurb
etc.)

She asks them to read the title, describe the cover page, and say
authors name.

When does the teacher point to words, labels, letters and

does she read or name them? How does she ask the
children to recognize these words? Does she have a word
wall? Do the children learn HFW?

When students read and make a mistake she correct for them the
word and pronounce it correctly. For vocabulary, she teach them the
words until they find them unforgettable. She have a word wall in the
classroom (each letter has a section with words start with it). The
students know most of high frequency words so, they dont take
them as whole lesson.

How does she support the childrens development in

understanding the use of uppercase and lowercase letters,
punctuation, and other print features?

If she fined any mistake When she correct their spelling test (For
example: start the sentence with lower case letter), she call the
student and tell them his/her mistake and give him/her quick test to
see if he/she understand.

Other
I saw that children need more time to have knowledge of print.
Unlike adult who can't get it easily and faster. Especially for young
learners in government schools. They learn Grammar and
vocabulary in English as a foreign language and have few lessons
per week to learn them with limited resources.