The Georgia Early Learning Standards Activity Guides may - gapitc

Foundations for reading
Listen to stories for short periods of
time as they:
• Make pleasant sounds when an adult shows them pictures in a short book
• Watch finger plays, and begin to copy movements
• Sit in an adult’s lap to listen briefly to a story
• Find a real object similar to one in a story
Begin to explore physical features of a
book as they:
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Carry a book around with them
Bring a book to an adult to read to them
Turn the pages of a cloth or board book
Point to a few pictures while looking through a book
Turn a book right side up when it is upside down
Become aware of pictures in print
as they:
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year olds
Point to pictures of a familiar object in a book when asked
Say the name of a familiar object when asked “What’s that?”
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