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Environmental Text

Environmental Text


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Definition:

Print and other graphic symbols found in the physical environment, such as signage, labels and logos.

Purposes:

  • To symbolize specifics in the environment
  • To increase understanding through awareness of meaningful associations
  • To promote emerging literacy skills

Characteristics:

  • Various forms and types:
    • Words
    • Phrases
    • Logos
    • Pictures
    • Invented spellings
    • Visuals (shapes, colors, font, and other graphic features)

Grade Level Instructional Scope for COMPREHENDING and USING the Genre and Text of Environmental Text:

Grade K

Opportunities to Teach:

Understanding the genre

  • Collecting examples
  • Concept development
  • Visual representation
  • Multiple types and locations
  • Eliciting examples and non-examples
  • Sort and classify types
  • Point out environmental print in the community
  • Celebrate recognition and ability to read

Understanding the text

  • Connections to self, experiences, community, world
  • Spend time reading class-assembled books as individuals, in pairs, or in groups
  • Discuss representations

Booklists:

Access to the Documents:

Complete K-8 Genre Project
From the Michigan Department of Education

Complete K-8 Genre Booklist
From Kent Intermediate School District


Page last modified on October 08, 2010, at 11:36 AM