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Left to Right, Top to Bottom

  • Kindergarten
  • English Language Arts
  • 50 s
  • British Columbia
  • BCK-EN-07

A two-line page ("I see a dog. The dog is big.") is first read from the right, which comes out as "dog, a, see, I" and sounds silly. A pointer then reads it the right way, starting on the left, following a green arrow across each line and a dashed arrow down to the next line, with numbers 1 and 2 showing top to bottom and a recap that in English we read left to right, top to bottom.

Concept: We read from left to right and from top to bottom

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Where do we start reading on a page?

Here is a page with two lines.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Where do we start reading on a page?

Here is a page with two lines.

From the right, it says: dog, a, see, I.

That sounds silly, and it makes no sense.

In English, we start on the left.

Then we go across to the right.

Now it says: I see a dog.

At the end, we go down to the next line.

We start on the left again: the dog is big.

We read the top line, then the bottom line.

In English, we read left to right, top to bottom.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Kindergarten

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: concepts of printBCK-EN-07

Next: Words Are Made of Letters, With Spaces Between

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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