chapter 12 Flashcards
Phonological awareness
awareness of sub-lexical units & metalinguistic skills
closely tied to the quality of a child’s Phonological system
children w/ SSDs at risk for impaired PA skills, also at risk for literary deficits
when does PA start developing
2-3 years old
shallow PA
early
word awareness
rhyme awareness
syllable awareness
onset awareness
phoneme identity
deep PA
later
phoneme blending
phonemes segmentation
phoneme counting
phoneme manipulations
alliteration
2 words sharing a phoneme in the same position
identifying alliteration is easier in certain contexts
cane - cape easier than cane - cop
conventional literacy
decoding & comprehension
emergent literacy
preliminary skills necessary for literacy
emergent literacy skills
letter knowledge
letter-sound correspondence skills
concepts about print
book structure knowledge
link between PA & literacy
children w/ good emergent literacy & PA skills are likely to become stronger readers
emergent literacy related to
oral language skills
emerging metalinguistic knowledge
3 key achievements of emergent literacy
alphabet knowlede
print awareness
PA
alphabet knowledge
knowledge about letters of the alphabet
what influences children’s acquisition of alphabet letter names
own name advantage - learn the letters in their own name earlier
letter name pronunciation effect - easier to learn the names of letters that sound like their sounds (b)
letter order hypothesis - learn letters earlier at the beginning of the alphabet
consonant order hypothesis - early, middle, & late sounds
print awareness
children’s understanding of the forms & functions of written language
metalinguistic milestones
- print interest
- print functions
- print conventions
- print forms