Child Written Language Development Flashcards
What does Pseudo-Reading teach children?
The conventions of books and reading and encourages them to enjoy books
What does early reaching enable young children to establish?
Phoneme-grapheme correspondence
What is the Phonic Approach?
Focusses on the sounds of letters. Children are taught the relationship between letters and sounds by “sounding out” the letters
What does Synthetic Phonics Teach?
Phonemes independently from reading. Once the phonemes are learned, the child can then blend them to pronounce the words
What does Analytic Phonics teach?
It breaks down words into key sections called the onset and the rime. It encourages children to recognise commonly recurring patterns in words
What is the Whole-Word Approach?
It teaches children individual words as wholes rather than as units made up of individual letters or sounds
There are 16 features of children books, name a few.
- Chronological order
- Spoken Language Features
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Balanced Sentences
- Repetition/ Parallelism / repeated formulae
- use of “and”
- Idioms
- Do not separate subject from verb
- Phrasal verbs for clarity rather than more obscure verbs for brevity
- Concrete nouns and avoiding pronouns
- Pictures to complement vocabulary
- Avoid passive voice
- Avoid ellipsis
- Place line breaks at the end of sentences
- Use Story Grammar
Who did Story Grammar?
Stein and Glenn
According to Story
