Some Characteristics of Emergent Readers:
- Learning that print carries a message
- Making personal connections with reading
- Learning sounds and names of alphabet letters
- Learning the difference between letters and words
- Learning to read top to bottom and left to right
- Learning to follow words with finger as words are read
- Relying heavily on pictures to get meaning
- Starting to recognize some sight words
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