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20 Cards in this Set
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Phonemic Awareness |
Development of phonology through the awareness of phonemes as a unit |
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Lexical Diversity |
The number of different words used |
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Lexical Density |
Ratio of content words to total words |
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Lexical Complexity |
The frequency of polysyllabic words |
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Derivational Morphology |
The process that creates new words by adding certain suffixes or prefixes to existing words |
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Inflectional Morphology |
Distinguishes between different inflections |
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Coherence |
Refers to the structure of a story; the sequence of events must relate to each other in a meaningful way |
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Cohension |
Refers to the use of lingusitic devices to link sentences |
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Story Grammar |
Refers to the structure of all stories: 1) Must consist of a setting 2) Setting includes place and characters 3) Each episode includes an initiating event |
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Comprehension Monitoring |
The process of message evaluation |
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Decontextualized Language Use |
Words that stand on their own |
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Emergent Literacy |
Skills and knowledge about literacy that children aquire before they learn to read e.g. knowing how to hold a book and turn pages |
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Family Literacy |
Literacy practices in the home and community e.g. reading lavles, signs, Bible, newspapers, magazines, books in homes |
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Simple view of Reading |
Reading comprehension is composed of two components: 1) Word recognition component symbols -> language and 2) Language comprehension which derives meaning from languagw |
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Alphabetic Systems |
The printed symbols corresponds to phonemes (eg. in English alphabet) |
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Phonological Recoding |
The process of mentally going from letter to sound |
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Matthew Effect |
The effect of practice on reading skill |
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Phonics |
The method of reading instruction that involces explict teaching of letter-sound correspondances |
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Developmental Dyslexia |
Term applied to children whose reading ability is lower thab expected based on their IQ |
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Whole Language Approach |
The method of reading instruction based on the notions that children do not need explicit phonics instruction to learn to read and that children will learn to read if they are surrounded by interesting material |
