Competency 4:Literacy Development

Question 1

Literal Comprehension

Answer 1

Type of comprehension that asks students to answer questions and identify facts that are directly stated in the text (on the lines)

Question 2

Inferential Comprehension

Answer 2

Type of comprehension that asks students to respond to questions based on ideas and information that are directly stated in the text along with the use of their intuition, background, and experiences to reach a conclusion and to make inferences and predictions (between the lines)

Question 3

Evaluative Comprehension

Answer 3

Type of comprehension that asks students to compare information from the text with their own experiences, background & values. (behind the lines)

Question 4

Alphabetic Recognition

Answer 4

The ability to recognize the shapes of letters and to name the letters of the alphabet.

Question 5

Logographic Recognition

Answer 5

The 1st stage children experience when learning about words. Words that are learned as while units are sometimes embedded in a logo. Ex) traffic signs.

Question 6

T or F: Students should be discouraged from continuing finger-touch and finger-tracking after Grade 1

Answer 6

True. These methods detract from building fluency skills.

Question 7

Emergent Literacy

Answer 7

Children’s reading & writing development before formal instruction.

Question 8

Textless (Wordless) Books

Answer 8

Picture books without words in which the pictures tell the story.

Question 9

Three major author’s purposes

Answer 9

P-persuade
I- inform
E- entertain