## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

#### Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Language Development and Communication (LDC)

#### Subdomain: Foundations for Reading

#### Goal: Children develop interest in books and motivation to read.

#### Skill Progression: Develop interest in books and motivation to read

#### Age: 12-15 Months

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### Turns inverted book upright

Situations for Observation of Skill

Observe the child and adult reading books together.

Elicitation Strategy

The adult hands a familiar book to the child in an upside down position. Allow the child to look through the book independently before reading and talking about the pictures. After reading the book, let the child “read” to the adult. Ask the child to find a picture that she liked (patted or labeled) in the book.

Behavior Observed

The child turns the book so that it is oriented correctly.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

The child at this level now understands the spatial orientation of pictures. She is learning where her favorite pictures are in familiar books. Early childhood educators and parents can encourage problem solving, spatial understanding and sequencing by asking the child to find different characters or objects in familiar books. Help parents understand that reading books involves a different language intonation pattern. When adults read a page then ask the child to “read” a page, the child has an opportunity to imitate this pattern, even with jargon rather than words. This helps build the foundation for reading skills.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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