Competency 5 Knowledge of oral and written language acquisition and beginning reading

Question 1

Phonology

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encompasses the organization of sounds in language

Question 2

vocabulary

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semantics, encompasses both expressive (speaking) and receptive (listening) vocabulary.

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Morphology

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is the smallest units of meaning in words.

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Example of Morphology

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breaking up compound words and analyzing their meaning.

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Grammar

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Syntax, is the structure of language and words

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Pragmatics

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focuses on the social cues or norms in language. This is often referred to as situations in language.

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Discourse

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focuses on speaking and listening skills in language. Dialogue.

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What is background knowledge called

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Schema

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Cueing Systems

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allows students to use their background knowledge and apply that understanding to words.

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semantic cues

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assists in comprehending texts, including words, speech, signs, symbol and other meaning-bearing forms. Uses students prior knowledge.

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Syntactic Cues

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involve the structure of the word as in the rules and patterns of language (grammar), and punctuation,

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Graphophonic Cues

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letter-sound or sound- symbol relationships of language. also called decoding.

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Pre-alphabetic phase

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Pictures! students read words by memorizing visual features of guessing word from context

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Partial-alphabetic

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students recognize some letters and can use them to remember words by sight.

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Full Alphabetic phase

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can decode unfamiliar words

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Consolidated-alphabetic

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students consolidate their knowledge of grapheme-phenome blends into larger units that recur n different words.

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Phonological Awareness

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overarching skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language including parts of words, syllables, onsets and rimes.

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children who have phonological awareness are able to:

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Identify and make oral rhymes, clap out number of syllables, recognize words with the same initial sounds, recognize the sound of spoken language, blend sounds together, divide and manipulate sounds. .

Question 19

phonemic awareness

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understanding the individual sounds in words, spoken language, mostly auditory, manipulating sounds in words

Question 20

phonemes

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individual sounds

Question 21

Phonics

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understanding the relationship between sounds and spelling patterns representing those sounds, written language/print, visual and auditory, reading and writing of words.

Question 22

Grapheme

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spelling patterns