• Orange Board Of Education

    Office of Early Childhood

     

    The Early Childhood Program uses the High/Scope Growing Readers Early Literacy Curriculum for its focused approach to literacy instruction.  This curriculum has four key principles for early literacy instruction:

    • Comprehension
    • Phonological Awareness
    • Alphabetic Principle
    • Concepts about Print

        

    This focused approach to literacy development in young children focuses on these four aspects of early literacy because of the strong evidence that young children’s knowledge of these concepts is a solid predictor of their reading achievement in later years.

     

    The Four Areas of Concentration

     

    Comprehension – vocabulary building, prediction, connection, and retelling

     

    Phonological Awareness – rhyming, alliteration (beginning phoneme substitution), and segmentation

     

    Alphabetic Principle – name recognition, name writing, letter recognition, and letter-sound correspondence

     

    Concepts about Print – identifying book parts, orienting books for reading, distinguishing between pictures and words, and understanding the direction of text

     

    Growing Readers is designed to be used in early childhood programs and it is structured around three basic elements:

    1. Small group literacy activities at 3 developmental levels
    2. New and classic children’s books
    3. Common classroom materials

     

    Together, these three components provide the tools for systematically and specifically supporting the growth of language and literacy in preschool and kindergarten classrooms.

     

    The Growing Readers small-group activities engage young children in four  key areas of early literacy learning: comprehension… | Early literacy,  Literacy, Curriculum

     

     

Last Modified on August 26, 2022