{"id":73,"date":"2018-10-08T08:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:35:28","slug":"learning-to-look-at-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/2018\/10\/08\/learning-to-look-at-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Look at Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers see letters as different from one another, but to young children, they look a lot alike. Children need to learn to notice the distinctive features of\u00a0 a letter and what makes it different from another letter.\u00a0 Orientation also makes a difference. For example, d and b look very similar.\u00a0 A child might make a mistake in using these letters wrong, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that they are &#8220;seeing&#8221; the letters wrong, just they do not yet see the importance of direction. (Literacy Beginnings,page 185)<\/p>\n<p>Making sure that children have the opportunity to sort letters is essential.\u00a0 Explicitly teaching how to sort is very important. Once students have hands on experiencing sorting it can be added to Word Work during Daily 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers see letters as different from one another, but to young children, they look a lot alike. Children need to learn to notice the distinctive features of\u00a0 a letter and what makes it different from another letter.\u00a0 Orientation also makes a difference. For example, d and b look very similar.\u00a0 A child might make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/leones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}