Phonological awareness

two assessments that measure early literacy skills for students in grades K-2 are Early Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA) by High/Scope and the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA). The ELSA evaluates a student’s "comprehension, phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, and concepts (DeBruin-Parecki, 2005).” This process consists of three separate forms that are to be completed by the assessor throughout several evaluation activities. The first form is completed during a…

(Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl & Holliday, 2010). Students’ engagement in this unit is ensured by their natural enjoyment of rhyme (Winch et al., 2010). Understanding rhyme has been identified as an important component in developing phonological awareness, which is foundational to future success in spelling and reading (Edelen-Smith, 1997; Winch et al., 2010). Engaging in this unit will assist students in making connections between oral language and written text; a key learning task of…

storyteller and the adult the facilitator to the child’s verbalizations is the main goal of dialogic reading. Prompting is a way to guide children into the direction of storytelling during shared-reading, while developing print knowledge and phonological awareness, all emergent literacy skills. Emergent literacy skill is the knowledge of reading and writing a child has before they are formally taught how to read and write. Sim, Berthelsen, Walker, Nicholson, and Fielding-Barnsley (2014), in…

receptive and expressive language was observed through the Pragmatics Profile, Observational Rating Scale, Core Language Score, Receptive Language Index, Expressive Language Index, Language Content, Language Structure Index, Word Associations, Phonological Awareness, Rapid Automatic Naming, and Working Memory. The following results are based on Bernie’s performance on the CELF-4. Pragmatics Profile Results from the Pragmatics Profile revealed that Bernie frequently interrupted others while…

Think back to when you were a child, did you enjoy reading and writing, or despise it? What about now that you have grown up, has your outlook on literacy changed? Everyone has a different story behind their answers each of these questions. Personally, I never enjoyed reading or writing growing up. However, literacy has slowly grown on me throughout the years, especially since I will be teaching children in just a few short years. My first experience with literacy was when I was still a baby.…

Therefore, The types of play is Given the general difficulty with defining play, and the recognition of its complexity, it is not surprising that there have been numerous attempts to categorise different types of play according to Whitebread,(2012). As Moyles (1989) has demonstrated, for every aspect of children’s development, there is a form of play. However, in the contemporary psychological literature the various kinds of play are generally divided into five broad types based upon the…

was put into the process of reading. It was determined that effective reading instruction must be based on an understanding of how the reading process occurs. As America progressed through the 20th-century, reading instruction was based on phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Towards the early part of the 21st-century, reading instruction became guided by data and the different types of literacy available to children: print, media, auditory, and the…

Measurements and Collection. In order to show the effect of the structured intervention on the outcomes of the mentees, different types of data will be collected and analyzed to detect trends over time between mentoring groups (E-SBM, Traditional BBBS, and Control). Along with demographic data collected upon program entry, data will be collected on multiple measurements corresponding to each hypothesis. - The first intermediate question states: What is the difference in behavior between each…

The Oral and Written Expression Scale (OWLS), is a normalized English assessment designed for individuals ages 3 to 20. OWLS is a developmentally appropriate assessment for students in the 1st grade, whom average 6-years old. The purpose of the OWLS assessment is to act as either a screening or diagnostic tool in order to assess the individual student’s specific developmental areas of needs and strengths in English language skills. The assessment consists of four key scales or measurement tools…

By creating guided reading lesson plans, I was able to help my students develop their phonemic awareness by incorporating word work activities that involved working with multisyllabic words. Therefore, the students were able to understand that words and syllables are made up of sequence of sounds. The word work activity in the informative text got the…