4: Fostering Emergent/Early Lit

Question 1

Emergent Literacy

Answer 1

(early literacy) suggests that child already has some knowledge of reading and writing…on the verge of acquiring knowledge

Question 2

Concepts of Print

Answer 2

understanding how print works…that printed words represent spoken words, have boundaries, and are read from left to right in English.

Question 3

5 Things when reading to students…

Answer 3

1. Develop story structure
2. build comprehension
3. make personal connections
4. develop skills
5. select approp read-alouds

Question 4

Storybook reading & shared book experiences

Answer 4

Story: Begins with looking at pictures and the final stage is using print to read
Shared: dialogic reading

Question 5

2 formations of speech sound

Answer 5

• Consonants: place, manner, articulation

- Vowels: where articulated

Question 6

Using Planned & Systematic Instruction

Answer 6

Planned: Phonologic awareness and alaphabetic principles
Sys: high-readiness (does well with holistic instruct) low-read (needs syst instruction)

Question 7

5 spelling stages

Answer 7

1. Pre alphabetic (pre phonemic stage)
2. Alphabetic (letter name) stage
3. Consolidated alphab (within word pattern/ortho)
4. Syllable juncture (syllabic)
5. Derivational Constancy

Question 8

5 ways the environment effects speech sound

Answer 8

1. nasalization
2. syllabic consonants
3. affrication
4. aspiration
5. vowel blending

Question 9

3 main phonological awareness skills

Answer 9

rhyming, blending, segmenting

Question 10

Highly effective activities for building literacy

Answer 10

• read to kids and by kids
• shared reading
• language experience/shared writing
• independent writing

Question 11

4 ways to monitor emergent literacy

Answer 11

1. Observation
2. informal assessment measures (letter knowledge, writing sample, print know)
3. Formal Assessments (CAPS, PALS, CBMS)
4. use results to plan instruction