Chapter 11-School age literacy Development Flashcards
What is the best indicator for a child’s success with reading and writing?
Oral language and metalinguistic skills
Why are early life experiences so important?
The child who comes to kindergarten and has limited oral language and limited metalinguistic skills is already behind the eight ball.
What has new research found helpful for children at risk?
big help: all day kindergarten
All day kindergarten has what kind of impact?
positive impact on both social and academic skills
Research has found that In all-day kindergarten children learn what?
they learn to engage in child-to-child interactions
What are the two major factors that written language skills are based on?
environment
genetics
In the development of reading, what plays a dominant role?
genetics
When a child is struggling in reading, what does Dr. R ask the parent?
is there a family history of reading difficulty?
Does anybody in the family have any reading problems?
Sometimes it can even be an uncle, aunt, or grandparent.
What does reading require?
decontextualized language processing
good narrative skills
Poor readers exhibit __________?
poor narrative skills
In early treatment what do we need to build?
we need to build narrative abilities
What is the first step in reading?
decoding print
What is decoding?
breaking a word down into its component sounds and then blending them together to form a recognizable word
What is the second step in reading?
Phonological Awareness (PA)
What is Phonological Awareness?
knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words
PA skills are essential to _____ _____ .
good reading
In elementary school, what is PA skills the best predictor of ?
spelling
Tambyraja, Farquharson, Logan, & Justice (2015). Decoding skills in children with language impairment: Contributions of phonological processing and classroom performance. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24, 177-188.**
They looked at children with language impairment (LI) and measured their phonological processing and word decoding skills 2x during the academic year
What did the Tambyraja, Farquharson, Logan, & Justice (2015) study find?
PA skills in fall significantly predicted spring decoding outcomes
In tx, its important to focus on PA skills because they impact reading
What grade were the children in the study?
kindergartens and 1st graders
What is third step in reading?
Morphological Awareness (MA)
Define Morphological Awareness (MA).
The recognition, understanding, and use of word parts that carry significance.
Give an example for MA.
Students need to understand that prefixes, suffixes, inflections, and root words are all morphemes which can be taken away from or added to words to change their meaning.
More than ___ % of English words are _____ _____ .
50%
morphologically complex