Competency 005- Promote Literacy Development

Question 1

What is Literacy?

Answer 1

Is a set of skills that are developed over time. The developmental process of acquiring literacy skills begins in infancy.

Question 2

What are the literacy skills?

Answer 2

Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, print awareness, fluency, spelling, grammar, reading comprehension.

Question 3

Stages of Literacy

Answer 3

1. Emergent Literacy, 2. Alphabetic Reader, 3. Decoding Reader, 4. Fluent, Comprehending Reader, 5. Expert-Advance Reading.

Question 4

Emergent Literacy Stage

Answer 4

(pre-reader) 6 months to 6 years of age. Children learn from full range of sounds, words, concepts, images, stories, exposure to print, literacy materials, etc.

Question 5

Alphabetic Reader and Speller Literacy Stage.

Answer 5

Also known as “letter name phase”. From 6-to 7 years of age. children learn the relationship between letters and sounds, and among printed and spoken words. The child begins to read stories with high frequency words.

Question 6

Decoding Reader Literacy Stage

Answer 6

7-9 years of age. Children begin to read familiar stories and text with increasing fluency through consolidation of foundational decoding elements, sight vocabulary, and meaning in the reading.

Question 7

Fluent, Comprehending Reader Literacy Stage

Answer 7

9-15 years of age. Reading is to acquire new ideas, knowledge, attitudes, feelings, and explore different perspectives. Includes text books, trade books, newspaper, magazines, etc.

Question 8

The Expert -Advance Reader Literacy Stage.

Answer 8

16 years and older. Read a wide range of advance materials (expository and narrative) with multiple viewpoints. Reads across different disciplines.

Question 9

Reading levels

Answer 9

Independent 95 -100% read wpm without errors. 5% errors or less. Instructional 90-95% read wpm without errors. 10 or less word recognition errors per 100 words read. Frustration: 89% or less read words with errors. Have 25 or less word recognition errors per 100 words read.

Question 10

Literary Theme

Answer 10

Is the underlying message (moral, lesson, view, or comment life) that the writer would like to get across.

Question 11

Previewing (reading strategy)

Answer 11

Is a strategy that readers use. It consists in skimming the text before reading, looking for various features and information that will help as they return to read the text in detail later.

Question 12

Language Experience Approach

Answer 12

Is a Language Experience Story where an event told aloud by a child is printed by another child. After the story is printed, the children work together to correct the story, and then read it together. The approach helps children understand that was is spoken can be written, and what is written, can be read.

Question 13

Five Components of Reading

Answer 13

Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency and Reading Comprehension.

Question 14

Literary Genres

Answer 14

Fiction, Non-Fiction, Realistic Fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, biograph, autobiography, folklore, fantasy, tall tales, drama and poetry.

Question 15

Alphabetic Knowledge Learning Sequence

Answer 15

Children acquire alphabetic knowledge in a sequence: letter names (singing songs and rhymes), letter shapes (playing with blocks), and finally letter sounds. (Writing the letters in upper and lower case).