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Before they can learn to read and write, young children need a solid foundation of emergent literacy skills. This set of seven posters offers colourful reminders of key strategies from Hanen’s ABC and Beyond™ Program to help educators build the following emergent literacy skills during everyday conversations and book reading:
Individual poster size: 11 x 17 inches
Turn Book Reading into a Conversation
This poster outlines four key strategies to support educators to engage all children in shared book reading: OWL (Observe, Wait and Listen), Follow the Children’s Lead, Strive for 5 Turns, and SSCAN to Keep Every Child Engaged.
Build Phonological Awareness
This poster outlines the Listen... and Find One Like It strategy to build children’s phonological awareness during everyday conversations and activities. This strategy helps educators focus children’s attention on phonological awareness during everyday activities and conversations.
Make New Words Sparkle
This poster outlines the components of the Shoot for the SSTaRS strategy to build children’s vocabulary. This strategy helps educators highlight and deepen children’s understanding of new words during everyday activities and book reading.
Expand Story Understanding
This poster outlines the CSPAR framework (Characters, Setting, Problem, Actions, and Resolution) for developing children’s understanding of story structure. This framework reminds educators to highlight key story structure elements during shared book reading.
Foster Language for Thinking and Learning
This poster outlines the E’s and P’s strategy (Explain, Evaluate, Emotions, Experiences, Predict, Problem-solve, Project and Pretend) for encouraging the critical thinking skills required for story comprehension. This strategy helps educators engage children to use the language of thinking and learning during book reading.
Build Letter-Sound Knowledge
This poster outlines the Four S’s strategy (Show the letter, Sound it out, Stress the sound and Find one like it) for building letter-sound knowledge. This strategy helps educators support children to match letters and sounds throughout the day.
Foster Print Knowledge
This poster outlines the POP strategy (Point Out Print) for building children’s print knowledge. This strategy helps educators draw children’s attention to how print works during everyday activities and book reading.
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ABC and Beyond™ Guidebook
I’m Ready!™
ABC and Beyond™ Guidebook and Poster Set Combo Pack
