chapter 10 -Literacy Skills Birth to School age

Question 1

Metalinguistic

Answer 1

ability to think about language consciously

Question 2

Phonological Awareness

Answer 2

ability to hear/manipulate individual phonemes

Question 3

Orthographic knowledge

Answer 3

know when to use different spellings

Question 4

Morphological knowledge

Answer 4

(inflection) knowing the patterns used to form words

Question 5

Homophones

Answer 5

words with the same sound but different spelling and meaning

Question 6

Vocabulary Benchmarks -1st Grade

Answer 6

2000-3000 in expressive vocabulary

• synonyms & antonyms
• pictures to aid comprehension
• tell oral narrative

Question 7

Vocabulary Benchmarks -2nd Grade

Answer 7

• context clues, root words, prefixes/suffixes

- narratives are more developed

Question 8

Vocabulary Benchmarks -3rd Grade

Answer 8

4000-6000 spoke words

-begin to understand non-literal words

Question 9

Vocabulary Benchmarks -5th Grade

Answer 9

5000-8000 words (understand more than they use)

-comprehension grows to 15,000 because they understand inflection

Question 10

Elementary Spelling -phonological

Answer 10

sound it out (cat)

Question 11

Elementary Spelling -orthographical

Answer 11

know when to use different spellings

Question 12

Elementary Spelling -morphological

Answer 12

inflection (‘s, s’, -est)

Question 13

Inverted Spelling

Answer 13

by sound of letter names (usually incorrect)

Question 14

Dialogue Book Sharing

Answer 14

process of sharing book reading where the younger child is encouraged to be the storyteller