Childrens Literacy Development Flashcards
What was the purpose of Richard Gentry’s (1978) 5 spelling stages?
To help teachers nurture children’s ability by helping them with cognitive strategies.
What are the features of Richard Gentry’s (1978) pre-communicative spelling stage?
Imitate writing by scribbling, showing an understanding that symbols have meanings and messages
Using a range of symbols and present clone decipherable letter shapes but not make sound symbol connections
What are the features of Richard Gentry’s (1978) semi- phonetic spelling stage?
Link letter sounds and shapes
Show an awareness of word boundaries and how writing is organised on a page
What are the features of Richard Gentry’s (1978) phonetic spelling stage?
Understand that all phonemes can be represented by graphemes, making sound-symbol connections consistently.
Have a sight vocabulary
What are the features of Richard Gentry’s (1978) transitional spelling stage?
Combine with phonic knowledhe with visual memory
Show an awareness of combinations of letters and letter patterns
What are the features of Richard Gentry’s (1978) conventional spelling stage?
Demonstrates knowledge of the spelling system and rules using mostly correct spelling
Spelling using a large sight vocabulary
Know about word structure
Other than knowledge of sound, what other spelling skills are developed when learning to spell?
- recognition of individual profile of words
- familiarity w/ common letter strings
- awareness of word families and relationships between words
- understanding of morphology and affirmation
- recognition of homophones
- understanding of etymology and meaning
What do supporters of the creative approach believe?
That children should be allowed to experiment creatively with language without strict correction and that by trial and error become increasingly more accomplished writers.
The child is also less likely to be afraid of making mistakes in their writing if the focus is not primarily on accuracy
What do supporters of the rule based approach believe?
Believe there are strong arguments that when a child understands the rules of spelling, punctuation and grammar that their progress with be more rapid and they will more easily move towards producing a text that is more understandable and appropriate for the audience and purpose.
What does the metaphor “battery hens or free range chickens” used by John Abbot describe?
Different education approaches, suggesting free range chickens (then more independent and creative learners) might be the ones who thrive.
What was summarise in Teresa Granger, Katie Goouch and Andre Lambirths book ‘Developing voice and verve in the classroom’?
Summarised findings of an exclusive research project undertaken in response to growing concern that literacy skills were being valued more highly than developing creatively and understanding the purposes of writing.
What are the features of Jean Rothery (1980s) observation/comment model?
Simplest type of writing
A child observes something and then makes a comment on it.
“I saw a monkey, it was cheeky’
What are the features of Jean Rothery (1980s) recount model?
A subjective chronological account of an event.
Students for example, would be asked to write an account of a school trip.
Orientation (sets the scene)
Event
Reorientation
What are the features of Jean Rothery (1980s) report model?
An objective and factual description of an event or thing, rather than the none subjective recount. Doesn’t need to be chronological.
What are the features of Jean Rothery (1980s) Narrative model?
Story genre is the hardest to achieve. It involves orientation, complication, resolution and coda (moral of story or reason).
