Concepts About Print - Foundation

Concepts About Print - Foundation provides a full week of explicit early literacy teaching. Students learn where reading begins, track print from left to right, use a return sweep, and distinguish letters, words, spaces and punctuation. They identify the front and back cover, title, spine, author, illustrator and blurb, and practise navigating simple digital texts with taps, swipes, scrolling, arrows, buttons and menus.

The unit also connects print awareness with sentence and sound work. Students segment sentences into individual words, orally blend simple sound strings and segment single-syllable words into phonemes. An editable 18-slide presentation supports whole-class instruction, while the editable 22-slide quiz provides 10 interleaved question-and-answer checks.

Colour displays, cut-out pointers, Build-a-Book mats, sorting cards and four lower-case bingo boards support modelling, play and small-group teaching. Twelve black-and-white worksheet pages provide sequenced support and extension. Each meaningful worksheet has a matching answer page with a red ANSWERS label and red responses placed in the student writing spaces. The two-page assessment and five-level rubric support consistent evidence collection.

What's Included

• Concepts About Print editable presentation — 18 slides
• Concepts About Print editable quiz — 22 slides
• 46-page unit plan PDF
• Print and Screen Clues classroom display — 2 colour pages
• Concepts About Print student reference — 1 colour page
• Reading Pointer Pals activity — 2 colour pages
• Build-a-Book Detective activity — 3 colour pages
• Letter, Word or Punctuation Sort game — 3 colour pages
• Lower-Case Letter Bingo — 5 colour pages
• Print Pathways — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Letter, Word or Punctuation? — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Spaces Make Words — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Sound It, Tap It, Map It — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Book Parts Detective — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Author or Illustrator? — 1 student page and 1 answer page
• Screen Text Navigator — 1 student page and 1 answer page
• Print and Screen Detective Check — 2 student pages and 2 answer pages
• Concepts About Print Rubric — 1 landscape page
• Combined protected Preview PDF

Learning Focus

• Follow print from left to right and top to bottom
• Use return sweep when moving to a new line
• Recognise letters, words, spaces and punctuation
• Identify how books and simple digital texts are organised
• Use book features and basic digital navigation tools
• Segment sentences into individual words
• Orally blend and segment simple single-syllable words

Classroom Use

Use the presentation across approximately five whole-class lessons. Reinforce each concept with the display and student reference card, then rotate the pointer, Build-a-Book, sorting and bingo resources through small groups. Select the worksheet pages for independent practice, intervention or extension. Finish with the editable quiz, two-page assessment and rubric.

Curriculum Alignment

Aligned to Australian Curriculum v9 English codes AC9EFLA04 and AC9EFLY10, with additional mappings for Australian Curriculum v8.4, Victorian Curriculum 2.0, NSW, WA, New Zealand, England, Common Core, TEKS and Ontario.

Formats and Answers

PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX files are included. The unit plan is 46 pages, the presentation has 18 slides and the quiz has 22 slides. Fourteen red-answer pages cover all meaningful worksheet and assessment responses.

Digital Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase permits use by the individual purchasing educator in their own classroom in accordance with Sukindi's licence terms. Redistribution, resale, public posting and sharing outside the licensed classroom are not permitted.