Ch. 4 Fostering Emergent Literacy

Question 1

Consists of the reading and writing behaviors that evolve from children’s earliest experiences with reading and writing and that gradually grow into conventional literacy.

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Emergent Literacy

Question 2

Words that are between three and seven characters long and only repeat the same letter twice.

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Mock Words

Question 3

Understanding how print works and the many roles it plays in peoples lives is known as seeing the…

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Big Picture

Question 4

Our understandings about how print works – that printed words represent spoken words, have boundaries, are read from left to write in English, and so on…..

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Concepts of Print

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Is the consciousness of the sounds in words. It is a broad term and includes the ability to perceive syllables and rhymes, as well as individual speech sounds (Phonemes).

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Phonological Awareness

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Is the concept that letters represent speech sounds so that what we say can be written down and read…

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Alphabetic Principle

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Refers to a type of activity in which students play at being someone else: a doctor, a teacher, a firefighter.

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Dramatic Play

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Is a read aloud in which the reader poses questions and provides prompts to help students develop deeper understanding.

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Dialogic Reading

Question 9

Is the evolving ability of a child to read story books, would progresses from simply telling a story suggested by the books illustration or having her in the book read aloud to reading the book conventionally.

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Emergent Story Book Reading

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Also known as shared reading, is the practice of reading stories, informational text, chants, poems, or songs, often in an enlarged text, while the class follows along or joins in.

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Shared Book Experience

Question 11

A book large enough so that all the words can be seen by all the members of the group or class; a typical size is 15 x 19”

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Big Book

Question 12

Is that intuitive spelling that novices create before learning or while learning the conventional writing system. This type of spelling is also known as temporary, developmental, constructive, foreign space, or transitional spelling. These terms indicate that this spelling marks a passing stage in the child’s development.

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Invented Spelling

Question 13

This refers to generally accepted ways of putting words on the page, such as arranging words from left to right and using capital letters and end punctuation.

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Print Conventions

Question 14

This technique can foster emergent literacy. One student or group of students dictates a story, which is then used as a basis for reading and writing instruction.

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Language – Experience Stories

Question 15

This is a process in which both teacher and student compose a story and write it on the board, and chart paper, interactive whiteboard, or paper. The teacher might do the actual writing or the students might write words or portions of words that they can spell the stories are used for practice in reading.

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Shared (interactive) Writing

Question 16

These are the smallest units of sound that distinguish one word from another. Pit is different from Pat because of the difference in the phonemes /i/ and /a/.

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Phonemes

Question 17

These are consonant sounds that are articulated by partially obstructing the flow of the breath: /b/, /d/, /k/, /g/, /p/, /t/, /j/, and /ch/.

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Stops

Question 18

Is the stage in which students use letters but don’t realize that letters represent sounds.

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Pre-alphabetic (pre-phonemic) Stage.

Question 19

This stage is also known as the letter name stage because students use the names of the letters to figure out the sounds they represent the name of /b/ for instance contains its sound.

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Alphabetic Stage

Question 20

This stage is sometimes known as the within word pattern or orthographic stage because students are beginning to see patterns such as the final /e/ and double vowels.

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Consolidated Alphabetic Stage

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Is a process in creating an experience story in which a student or group of students are prompted to retell an experience or story and the teacher or an age writes it down, rereads it to the students, and helps the students read.

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Dictation

Question 22

This is the consciousness of individual sounds in words. It is the realization that a spoken word is composed of a sequence of speech sounds and being able to know the individual sounds.

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Phonemic Awareness

Question 23

This is the ability to reflect on language and an abstract level.

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Metalinguistic Awareness

Question 24

This is the process of articulating a sound while still articulating the previous sound for instance, saying /oy/ while still articulating /t/ in toy.

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Coarticulation

Question 25

This is the initial part of a word the part that precedes the first vowel. The onset could be a single consonant (c + at), a digraph (sh + eep), or a cluster (tr + ip). Does not have this.

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Onset

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is the part of a word that rhymes, such as -ook in look or -ow in cow.

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Rime

Question 27

This is the division of sentences into words, come home words into component words, words and syllables, syllables into onset and rime, and finally, words into phonemes.

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Segmentation

Question 28

Consonant sounds that are articulated with a continuous stream breath: /s/, /f/, /w/, /m/, etc.

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Constinuants