Competency 003

Question 1

Alphabetic Principle

Answer 1

Ability to connect letters with sounds, and to create words based on these associations

Question 2

What are the 4 phrases of the Alphabetic Principle?

Answer 2

Pre-Alphabetic; Partial Alphabetic; Full Alphabetic; Consolidated Alphabetic

Question 3

Pre-Alphabetic Phase

Answer 3

Can identify things by their design (i.e. Wal-Mart/McDonald’s), but are not connecting the letters and the sounds of the logo

Question 4

Partial Alphabetic Phase

Answer 4

They get exposed to alphabet block playing and concrete letter objects that are typical in early childhood programs; begin connecting the shape of the letters with the sound they make and connecting initial letter with the sound of the names of peers

Question 5

Full Alphabetic Stage

Answer 5

Children begin making connections between the letters, the sound that they make, and the actual meaning of the word

Question 6

Consolidated Alphabetic Stage

Answer 6

Begin conceptualizing that they can use components of words that they know to decode new words; begin discovering how they can create new words with the use of onsets, rhymes, and other letter sequences

Question 7

What are the three types of writing systems?

Answer 7

Pictographic, Syllabic, and Alphabetic

Question 8

Pictographic Writing System

Answer 8

Words, ideas, and concepts are represented with a visual or image

Question 9

Syllabic Writing System

Answer 9

Syllables are depicted through the use of unique symbols

Question 10

Alphabetic Writing System

Answer 10

Uses the sounds of the language as a basic unit for writing