My Shared Reading Project

My Shared Reading Project

Last night I started my project and I had the pleasure of starting my shared reading project with a young girl named Ahriah. The first step of this assignment was to gather the child's concept of print while reading to them. This was my first time meeting Ahriah, although I have met her father many times before since he is a friend of my partner. Ahriah is four years old; she doesn't go to school yet, but she goes to a daycare program. Afterwards when she is done with her daycare program she spends the rest of the day with her dad. Ahriah has an older brother whose name is Jack and he is eight years old. Jack is fluent in literacy and language for his age range. Ahriah on the other hand, seems to be having trouble. Watt, Ahriah's dad tells ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...I ask her, "Is this this the front of the book?" She tells me no it's the end. I try one more time to read the book to her and ask her more questions, but again she loses focus. I was warned by Dr. Baker that you might not get to read the whole book to the child, but it's ok to interact with a child and to let him or her talk. When it comes to assessing her concept of print I believe that she is at a very low level of the understanding scale. Of course the child has room for improvement, but she shows a strong potential for what she already does know. I feel like she knows her alphabet as far as the sounds that they make, but I don't believe that she can match the sound to an actual letter. Like I stated in the beginning she has the general concept down on how books work, but she doesn't understand why they

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