Ch7 Academic Skills (Writing&math-Counting)

Front 1

Describe 4 reasons why writing skills build

Back 1

1) Knowledge base increases (the more you know the more you can write about, more vocabulary)

2) Better use of strategies (knowledge telling-what kids do-writing down information as it comes to mind. knowledge transforming-more sophisticated-requires an element of planning)

3) Physical/mechanical control (mechanical aspects such as spelling, capitalization, punctuation take a toll on the writer-once this is mastered-can focus on the real stuff)

4)Better monitoring- you write and re read and change things, you don't just hand in your rough copy-greater skill in revising

Front 2

Is counting an innate concept?

Back 2

Babies have an innate capacity to count up to 3

Babies can distinguish basic quantities and also recognize the larger of the 2 quantities

Front 3

What are 3 major counting principles?

Back 3

One to one principle-there must be one and only one number name for each object that is counted (1,2,5-still correct)

Stable order- number names always go in the same order (consistently counting objects 1,2,4,5 shows understanding of this principle)

Cardinality principle- last label you give is representative of how many objects there are

Front 4

Is counting beyond 10 the same in all languages?

Back 4

No, much more difficult in english

Front 5

At first, how do we add and subtract?

Back 5

We first do it on our fingers, then we progress to doing it mentally, however if we can't do it mentally we revert to doing it back on our fingers