Latin alphabet

1. What is the demography of the language? The Chechen language, or Tsjetsjeens, is a branch of Vainakh of the Northeast Caucasian language family (Nakh-Daghestanian) and has an approximate number of 1.2 – 1.5 million speakers. According to Thompson (2013), the language can be found in the Republic of Chechnya (Russia), Dagestan, Georgia, and can also be found in Central Asian countries like Turkey and Jordan as a result of the Chechen diaspora. 2. What historical events led to the physical…

Lesson Elements Observations/Notes Learning Objective • Group 1 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 85% of the letter names correctly. o When the student is shown 25 sight word flashcards, the student will be able to identify at least 80% of the words correctly. • Group 2 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 90% of the letter names correctly. o When…

Phonics is the method of teaching a person to read by putting sounds with letters or a group of sounds from the alphabet together. Phonics has many strategies to help students with literacy in the classroom. The following three phonics strategies will form the foundation that students need to read and communicate properly. Those strategies are letter blending, word sort, and alphabet matching. Letter Blending Letter blending is the skill combining sounds together to form words. In the…

At the inception of my partnership with Mikel, I purposed in my heart to view him from two angles. First, I would treat him as though he was my actual student; and second, I would teach him if he was my child. In every other assignment up to this writing assessment, I felt like a teacher. I was the one prepared with the questions, activities, and lesson plan, ready to guide Mikel through instructional learning. All he had to do was follow my lead. As I prepared to give Mikel directions for our…

our modern-day society. Emojis are incorporated to represent individual letters of the alphabet. For example, is used to represent the letter I, is used to represent the letter b and is used to represent the letter u. Seeing that there are limited amounts of emojis that phonetically represent each individual letter of the alphabet, emojis are combined to represent each of the remaining letters of the alphabet in order to tackle the…

a ‘convention’ to create an agreement contract which detailed the ‘appropriate’ and suitable behaviors towards one another. Overall, the etymological age and origin of these 20 words is very revealing. There were more words that had evolved from Latin roots than expected. They reinforced topics we have discussed in class, such as the French influence over and the English language. Finally, by taking into account the historical background it makes sense as to why these words entered into the…

that his expertise is on heritage and biodiversity, though he has written various travel books about Jordan, Israel, France, Portugal, and Peru among other destinations.The selection we read for class today is an excerpt from his book “The Animated Alphabet”, published in 1997. Demeude begins the chapter with a history of alphabetic writing and then of decorated letters, more specifically, the decorated initial. He deals with the picture/writing dichotomy(?) Elkins writes about by quoting…

As many teachers search for new strategies and interventions to address the lack of fluency within their reading programs, Repeated Reading (RR) appears to be a topic of curiosity. RR is an evident based strategy designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension through the development of automatic word processing and contextualized linguistic effect (Winter, 2007). Similar to the text features on a cell phone, automatic word processing is the ability to detect and comprehend a word…

different alphabets, and then some. However, the first two alphabets, collectively called ‘kana,’ only have about a hundred characters to them. Furthermore, they are phonetic, which means that they represent one sound that never changes regardless of context, unlike the third alphabet whose characters have multiple readings and whose pronunciation depends entirely on context. With this in mind, when I saw a free online program that promised to teach you how to read and write both kana alphabets…

“Totally like whatever, you know?” So like when I talk to kids my age, they just all like never seem to know what they are talking about anymore, you know? We have all at one time met or talked to someone that talks like my example above; it’s hard to make sense of what they are saying and they seem like they are unsure of what they are talking about. In the poem, “ Totally like whatever, you know,” author Taylor Mali says, “ In case hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like…