Science of Reading in the Library: Building Print Awareness to Support Comprehension

Building print awareness, or knowledge of print concepts, is something that those serving children in libraries already do. Building print awareness even more intentionally better positions children to understand texts when they enter school. (Today’s post is yet another installment in an unofficial series on the science of reading in the library.*) The foremost print concept is that print—like speech—carries meaning. From there, we want to help young children understand how print does this depending on its purpose (i.e., to persuade, inform, and/or entertain). Below is a list of concepts that children are expected to demonstrate an understanding of by the end of kindergarten. Keep in mind that these concepts may vary depending on the language a book is written in. For example: Spanish is read from left-to-right, while Arabic is read from right-to-left. You can develop children’s understanding of these concepts during story time by modeling and explicitly calling…
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