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76 Cards in this Set
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_____ is the ability to read, write, speak and think
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Literacy
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True or false: Literacy skills are inextricably interlocked from an early age
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True
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_____ language feeds the development of reading and writing
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Oral
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At what age do children begin learning the essential abilities for reading and writing?
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Birth
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Before the age of _____, most children are aware of print
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3
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_____ is the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes about reading and writing that young children acquire before any formal, direct instruction
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Emergent literacy
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_____ is thinking about language
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Metalinguistics
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_____ is the ability to manipulate, count, and identify linguistic units at the phoneme, word, and syllable level
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Phonological awareness
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Rhyming, segmenting, and blending are all part of _____
Ex: you use rhyming, clapping syllables, exaggerate names, do eye spy games, and use alliteration to help children with this |
Phonological awareness
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At age 3, children pay attention to the _____ in words.
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Sounds
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True or false: At age 3, children enjoy the rhythm of chants and songs.
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True
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True or false: At age 3, children fail to realize groups of letters have meaning
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False
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True or false: At age 3, children interact with books by labeling and using repetitive sentence forms
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True
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True or false: At age 3, children are not yet able to realize personal experiences and retell stories
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False
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True or false: At age 3, children are beginning to from an underlying understanding for beginning conversations
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True
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True or false: At age 3, Children look left to right and top to bottom when engaging with print
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False; age 4
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True or false: At age 4 Children know about 7-10 letters of the alphabet
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True
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True or false: At age 3, children know words are made of sounds
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False; age 4
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True or false: At age 4, children begin to tell stories and stay on topic; stories often resemble lists.
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True
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True or false: At age 3, storytelling supports oral language development
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False; age 4
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True or false: at age 4, children can answer simple wh questions
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True
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- Remember children do not 'wait to be ready' to learn to read. Expose them to it. - Provide a print rich environment-use signs labels, posters, and charts - Evaluate the environmental design, arrangement of furnishings, literacy props - Offer a wealth of literacy tools- writing and reading materials - Provide time for experimentation with literacy (books, writing, coloring) - Set up opportunities to collaborate with other children - Celebrate written work - Record achievements - Emphasize and demonstrate how literacy is a vital part of life - Use thematic units |
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Thematic units means connecting _____ to a specific topic
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Vocabulary
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When using thematic units, interactions can influence _____ development
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Vocabulary
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When using thematic units, ______ and _____ of vocabulary can influence reading development
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Quantity and quality
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When using thematic units, children need to know how words connect to other _____
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Words
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When using thematic units, _____ about topics serve to make connections between words
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Conversations
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_____ enable children to learn vocabulary and relational information in authentic and meaningful ways
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Thematic units
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When using thematic units, the new words connect with the children's _____ in a context familiar to the language community
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Background knowledge
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Don't just read to child. Participate in dialogue. Ask children questions about the book |
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What is dialogic book reading?
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shared book reading
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When you have a more experienced reader and a child, you should _____
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Interchange roles
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Know: Dialogic book reading;
- Increases knowledge of print - Increases vocabulary - Supports children's use of language to share ideas - Allows listener and reader roles to be passed back and forth |
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What three things support literacy development?
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Play, Phonological awareness, and prewriting
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- Play enhances the ability to use symbols - Fosters language growth - Supports the ability to solve problems in meaningful contexts - Promotes motivation to engage in literacy activities - Provides joyful engagement |
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Know: Phonological awareness;
- Introduce books, poems, songs, and games that play with sound |
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Know: Prewriting;
-Model or display written applications - Co-construct a story in which teacher and student contribute ideas - Provide independent prewriting experiences |
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In elementary, Children learn words starting from the most simple to the most complex. What is the order in which they learn these?
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Letter, sound, word, sentence
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Matching, blending, segmenting, substituting, and deleting all use _____
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Sounds
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_____ is strongly tied to reading comprehension
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary known in 1st grade predicts _____ in 11th grade
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Reading comprehension
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When a child enters school, they begin to learn to talk about topics which are not _____
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Immediately present
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1st graders know _____-_____ words. They also know ______ and _____
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2000-3000 words
Synonyms and antonyms |
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1st graders use _____ to aid in comprehension. They can also tell _____ stories
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Pictures
Oral |
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2nd graders use _____ clues, _____, _____, and _____
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Context, root words, prefixes, and suffixes
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2nd graders _____ are more developed with settings, characters, and plot resolution
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Narratives
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2nd graders use context clues. So the word blustery used in the sentence "It was cold, rainy, and blustery" allows the child to infer that blustery goes along with a cold and rainy theme |
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5th graders know _____-_____ words; comprehension grows to _____ words because they understand words that contain inflections
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5000-8000 words.
15,000 words |
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3rd graders know about _____-_____ words. They begin to understand non literal words such as _____
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4000-6000 words
Idioms |
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What are the three types of linguistic knowledge?
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Phonological
Orthographic Morphological |
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_____ is when certain letters go with certain sounds
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Phonological
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_____ is when certain sounds can be spelled in more than one way
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Orthographic
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_____ is how to add inflections to words
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Morphological
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______ development involves the integration of all 3 types of linguistic knowledge
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Spelling
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Gradually spellers move from mapping individual sounds to _____ sounds in multisyllabic words
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Chunking
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_____ is the ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression
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Reading fluency
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_____ is knowing how to group words together in appropriate phrasing
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Reading fluency
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______ is impacted by the degree to which a reader can automatically decode.
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Fluency
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In elementary school, writing is combined with drawing. So, dad swimming in the swimming pool, will look nothing like dad swimming in the swimming pool |
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_____ is when writing reflects use of letters to represent the strongest or most obvious sounds
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Invented spelling
Ex: child may spell Butterfly "bdrfo". This is expected of young children |
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In young elementary aged children, writing is used primarily for _____
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Personal expression
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As the complexity of the child's oral language develops, so too does their _____
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Writing
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Know: Strategies to support phonological development in elementary school years
- Teach ways to analyze the sound structure of syllables and words in a conscious manner - Focus on automaticity in order to interpret meaning - Use engaging, motivating activities - Focus on one or two phoneme manipulation skills at a time - Clarify the connection between the sound and the grapheme correspondence - Teach phonemic awareness over time within a balanced approach to teaching reading - Embrace the concept of teaching different ways to different learners. (Differentiation) |
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Know: Strategies to support fluency in the elementary school years
- Reader must quickly identify most words and have an efficient process for decoding novel words - The goal is automaticity - Give opportunities to reread sentences and make them sound like "talking" - Fluency depends on: The ability to identify individual words The amount of time spend reading The ability to retain text in memory The ability to integrate each segment with other parts of the text |
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Know: strategies to support vocabulary development in elementary school years
- Learned through listening to oral language and through reading written language - Word knowledge develops through repeated exposure to the word - Of the 3000+ words a child learns in one school year, only 300 come from organized, direct instruction - Most new vocabulary is the result of incidental learning of words embedded in everyday conversation and literacy activities Ex: Tornado. You don't just say this is a tornado. You use the word multiple times in a sentence - Teachers need to promote and model curiosity about words |
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Know: Strategies to support reading comprehension in elementary school years
Comprehension strategies include: -Awareness of text structure -Activating prior knowledge (What do you know about ..) -Questioning (what's this) -Self-monitoring (help kids keep track & remember info) -Summarization (Big picture) -Teaching most comprehension strategies is more effective when they are used in combination with one another |
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In elementary years, have most 4th, 8th, and 12th graders mostly or partly mastered the writing skills demanded at each grade level?
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Partly
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With writing in elementary school years, children need to be taught 3 strategies related to _____, _____, and _____
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Planning, revising, and editing
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True or false: Writing skills are important, but not that important in success in school and in life
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False; Writing skills are very important
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Children above the 7th grade continue to learn _____ and _____ alternations- changes in a regular pattern
Example: Diet-> Dietician |
Vowel and consonant
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In adolescence, children learn _____, which is the origin of words
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Etymologies
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In adolescence, _____ grows and allows them to analyze text structures like compare/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, and argument/support
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Vocabulary
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True or false: adolescents are able to look at something from multiple perspectives
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True
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True or false: Adolescents are not yet able to understand and use figurative language
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False
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_____ reflects the use of increasingly complex linguistic structures and new vocabulary
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Spoken language
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Know: Strategies to support language and literacy in adolescence
- Direct and explicit reading comprehension instruction - Instructional principles embedded in content area learning - Intensive writing connected to the types of writing students will do in their high school classes - Use teams of teachers from a variety of content areas - Teachers need in-depth professional development that is long term and on going - Use of formative assessments (pre-assessments) are critical to inform instructional adjustments based on student progress. (fyi: Summative assessment means post assessment) |
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