Which activity best supports recognizing print concepts?

• A. Understanding how to hold a book, read left to right, and top to bottom
• B. Understanding how to determine the author of a text
• C. Memorizing page numbers
• D. Identifying genre

Answer: (A)

Print concepts are about how a book is organized and how we interact with text. Understanding how to hold a book and how text moves across a page—reading from left to right and top to bottom—helps a child know where to start and how to move through the lines, which is essential for beginning reading. This is why this activity best supports recognizing print concepts: it directly teaches the physical cues and directional flow that underlie all reading. The other ideas focus on aspects beyond print layout: who wrote the text, which is about authorship; memorizing page numbers is about navigation rather than how print is laid out; and identifying genre deals with content and category rather than the way print appears and is read.