Step Up to Windows on Literacy
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Step Up to Windows on Literacy™ (Set of 13 titles)
Oral language and phonemic awareness are the basic foundational reading skills that are highly significant for success in early reading. After children understand sounds in our language, they are ready for print. The Step Up readers (wordless, word and simple sentence books) provide a medium for engaging children in talk and exploration of their personal experiences relating to each book's topic(s). Step Up introduces young children to the act of reading, developing an understanding of print and book conventions as well as building a better letter recognition and a bank of high frequency words.
The theme books in Step Up were developed to teach children to prepare to read non-fiction. The Step Up readers provide preliminary exposure to informational text with limits on text structures and text features to ensure success for the beginning reader.
Wordless books use visuals to present content.
One word books use varying words to label images and convey meaning.
Simple sentence books introduce predictable, repetitive sentences.
- Title List
- Book Features
- Wordless books
- One word books
- Simple sentence books
- A Dog's Life
- At the Playground
- Baking a Cake
- Count the Animals
- Families
- Flowers for Grandma
- Fruit Salad
- In the Tree
- My Mum and Dad Take Care of Me
- My School Day
- On the Move
- What Can I Do Today?
- Who Live At the Zoo?
Reading books from front to back, turning pages and holding books upright
Understand that pictures in books tell stories and give information
Talk about how dogs change as they get older
