Emergent Literacy Profile/Plan for Children Birth to Age 5
Components / Goal/VisionChild will… / Screeners / Strategies / Interventions / On-Going Assessment / Responsible Caregiver / Observable Evidence/Artifacts /
Reading/Listening
Reading Level
Birth to Three-Year-Old (0-3); Three to Five-Year-Old (3-5) / 0-3; 3-5
Be provided with literacy rich environments
Imitate behaviors that promote pre-reading skills / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL (Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning)
· Brigance
· DECA (Devereux Early Childhood Assessment) / · Early Childhood Conference for parents, caregivers, and educators
· Reach Out & Read Program
· Health Department distributes books and immunization appointments
· Story Hour at the public library
· Play Group / Attending:
-GSRP
-Co-op
-Head Start
-Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: Teaching Strategies Gold (TS Gold) / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
Recognize book by cover
Pretends to read books
Understands that books are to be handled in particular ways
Vocalization play
Labels objects in books
Looks at pictures and realizes it is a symbol
Listens to story
May attend to specific print
Three-to Five-Year-Old:
Letter Recognition
Recognizes print in the environment
Knows that print is what is read in stories
Understands that different text forms (groceries, menus, etc)
Pays attention to separable and repeating sounds in language
Uses new vocabulary in their own speech
Sensitive to some sequences of events in stories
Shows an interest in books
May begin to attend to beginning or rhyming sounds in salient words
Listening for Comprehension / 0-3 Listen to stories
3-5 Actively listen and partially retell stories
3-5 Ask and answer questions about the text / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / · Reach Out and Read
· Early Childhood Conference
· Read Alouds/Think Alouds
· Adult-Child Conversations
· Picture Walks
· Taking turns telling different parts of the story
· Repeated Readings
· Facilitate retellings with props: pictures, puppets, etc….
· Engage children in helping you read repeated phrases in books
· Free play
· Literacy and the Youngest Learner pg. 83
· Literacy and the Youngest Learner, text talk, pgs. 77-80
· The Creative Curriculum for Preschool Volume 5 / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
Attending and interacting with print/pictures during reading situations with caregiver
Three-to Five-Year-Old:
Sitting and attending in a variety of reading situations (independently, 1-on-1, small group, and whole group)
Close Reading / 0-3 Point to features in story (objects, illustrations, characters)
3-5 Read/analyze multiple texts for craft and meaning; Identifying theme, principles, concepts, theories, or big ideas; Track action in stories / · Call attention to how ideas are presented in different ways in different types of books.
· Picture Walks
· Provide opportunities for questioning and predicting
· Repeated Readings
· Show children how to use picture cues, context, sounding out words, high frequency words
· Introduce and discuss new words in meaningful context
· Assist children in building connections
· Use “binocular vision” to focus/zoom in
· Recall parts of the day
· Using a reading strip
· Book handling skills (turning pages, holding book appropriately, etc…) / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
Relate to new and known
Three-to Five-Year-Old:
Relate the new and known
Cite examples from text
Sustained conversation
Profundity for Reading Fiction / 0-5 Begin to demonstrate inference; Identify the big idea; Reflect understanding
Demonstrate deeper understanding through play, art, music, and movement / · Text to Text
· Text to Self
· Text to World
· Encourage questions and predictions
· Repeated readings of same text
· Think Aloud modeling
· Picture walks
· Reading wordless picture books
· Videos
· Small group guided practice
· Free play / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
Retelling of action
Beginning to make text to self connections
Three-to Five-Year-Old:
Retelling of action and identification of setting/characters
Demonstrate proficiency in connections text to self
Beginning to make text to text connections
Making reasonable assumptions of patterns and verify outcome of predictions
Identify elements of plot
Read Informational Text for Argument / 0-5 Recognize argument in text; Distinguish between facts and fiction / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
· Dramatic play
· Adult planned discussion
Three- to Five-Year-Old:
· Several readings of different versions of the same story
· Dramatic play
· Adult planned discussion / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Birth to Three-Year-Old:
Children are able to state opinions and supporting reasons.
Three-to Five-Year-Old:
Caregiver will model discussion using claim and evidence of argument
Identify facts from fiction
Structure of Informational Text (demonstrates understanding of agree/disagree)
Writing/ Speaking
Writing Skills / 0-3 Draw and scribble
3-5 Draw, scribble, letter-like forms, letter strings, and invented spelling; Use writing and drawing tools / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / · Provide ample time, space, and materials
· Provide specific opportunities
· Model writing
· Encourage children to write words important to them
· Provide accurate models of children’s names / Attending:
-GSRP
-Co-op
-Head Start
-Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/Intervention-ists, Home Visitor / 3-5 Use a variety of forms of early writing (scribbling, drawing, use of letter strings, copied environmental print) and move toward the beginning of phonetic and/or conventional spelling
Language, Vocabulary, and Grammar / 0-2 Produce one- to two-word phrases or sentences; Engage in simple back-and-forth exchanges; Make simple statements about recent events, familiar people, and objects; Mimic language patterns of familiar adults
3-5 Produce three- to four-word sentences (may omit some words or use words incorrectly); Initiate and attend to brief conversations; Name familiar people, animals, and objects / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / · Literacy and the Youngest Learner pgs. 53-56
· Repeat and reinforce new words
· Not correcting, recasting language pg. 60
· Use repetitive songs and games
· Use close-ended questions that offer choice
· Provide props that encourage talking
· Use books with repetitive refrains / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Evidence of vocabulary activities
Open-ended questions and conversations
Labeled areas/items
LOTS of talk
Initiate and respond in conversations
Fill in the gaps in predictable pattern books
Singing songs and rhymes
Foundational Skills
Concepts of Print / 0-2 Show interest in books; Show understanding that text is meaningful and can be read
3-5 Use and appreciate books; Recognize books by their covers; Turn pages front/back; Indicate where to start reading and direction to follow / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / · Highlight literacy on field trips (library, post office, bookstore, local newspaper)
· Take “Literacy Walks” (take walks looking for print within the students’ environment)
· Label areas/centers, label procedures with words and pictures
· Hold, open, and read books in front of children
· Point to words while reading
· Talk about the parts of a book
· Show how to find different sections in books / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Shared reading
Phonological Awareness / 0-2 Hear/show awareness of separate words in sentences
3-5 Notice and discriminate rhyme, alliteration, smaller and smaller units of sound, syllables in words / · Ages and Stages
· DIAL
· Brigance
· DECA / · Songs, Nursery Rhymes, Poems and Tongue Twisters
· Word Games
· Stretching Words / Attending:
- GSRP
- Co-op
- Head Start
- Private preschool
· Early On
· Home visits
· Great Parents, Great Start
· Early Head Start / · Anecdotal observation notes
· Checklists
· Video/audio recordings
· Rubrics
Or a program that encompasses all of the above, such as: TS Gold / Parent, Grandparent, Caregiver, Early Childhood Service Providers/ Interventionists, Home Visitor / Poetry & rhyme
Listening center
Resources:
Literacy and the Youngest Learner: Best Practices for Educators of Children from Birth to 5 by V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Nell K. Duke, Annie M. Moses, and Catherine E. Snow
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool , 5th Edition by Cate Heroman and Diane Trister Dodge
www.reading.org
DRAFT March 3, 2015
COOR ISD Literacy Leadership Team: Amanda Gascho, Nicole Demory, Katie Keith March 2015;
Adapted from Comprehensive Literacy Profile/Plan for MS/HS by Elaine Weber, Susan Codere Kelly, Diane Berg, and Tesha Thomas August 2012