Building Blocks of Language 5

Question 0

What is a “language experience story”?

Answer 0

An informal evaluation of a student’s oral language in which they tell a story about a picture, and the teacher evaluates missing or present components of a story. Best used to analyze oral language development.

Question 1

Pragmatics

Answer 1

Study of how language is used in specific situations. It seeks to understand how “speaker meaning” relates to “sentence meaning”

Question 2

Children engaged in pretend reading and scribbling are in which stage if literary development?

Answer 2

Awareness and exploration, which is from birth to preschool. Early reading and writing involves actual recognition of letters and phonological principles.

Question 3

What would be an effective activity to develop students’ letter knowledge?

Answer 3

Task students to create their own ABC book, matching pictures to each letter.