English Language Arts

Question 1

What can happen at any stage of reading development?

Answer 1

Contextual Analysis

Question 2

Instructions in phonics…

Answer 2

Phonemic awareness in context or oral language tasks

Question 3

Puppetry helps… What is the use-fullness of puppetry?

Answer 3

Generate ideas, encourages imagination, fast language development.

Question 4

Long vowel

Answer 4

Taught after short-vowel.
Has a long sound
Ex: cake, bake, etc…

Question 5

Roots (Latin/Greek)

Answer 5

Establish the basis of new words.
Ex: dent- Latin for tooth (dental, dentist)

Combining roots… phot o graph (phot=light) (graph=writing)

Question 6

Affixes

Answer 6

Added to words or roots to change their meaning.

Prefixes: Attach to front of word.
Suffix: Attach at end of word.

Question 7

Alphabetic principle

Answer 7

The way sounds and letters work together to create a decipherable code for giving and receiving messages.
~When children understand this, and can begin to associate phonemes with the correct graphemes, they are mastering the alphabetic principle.

Question 8

Morphology

Answer 8

The study of words, how they are formed, their relationships to other words in the same language.

Question 9

Morphemes

Answer 9

The smallest units of language that contain meaning.

Ex: cherry trees (meaning fun Unit)

Cherry/tree=free morphemes can stand on own.

Fruit/tree

S=plural
Bound morpheme needs to be attached to something else.

Question 10

Key stages of the writing process

Answer 10

1) prewriting stage
2) drafting stage
3) revising/editing stage
4) rewriting stage
5) publishing stage

Question 11

Syntax

Answer 11

Grammatical formations and patterns of sentences.

Question 12

Semantic

Answer 12

The meaning of a word, phrase, or text.

Question 13

Phonological Awareness

Answer 13

Is and understanding of how sounds, syllables, words, and word parts can be orally manipulated to break apart words, make new words, and create rhymes. (Important for learning to read/literacy development)

Question 14

Phonemic awareness

Answer 14

A type of phonological awareness that focuses on the sounds in a language.

(Can do it in the dark, only need to use your ears)

An emergent skill when students are learning how to read

Question 15

Phoneme

Answer 15

Small unit of sound, forms the language by creating differences in the meanings of words.

Ex: P,b,d,and t
Pad, pat, bad, bat
All have three phonemes

Question 16

Onset

Answer 16

Of a syllable is the beginning consonant or consonant blend.

Ex: Mat, rat, bran

Beginning letters m/r and blend br is the onset.

Question 17

Rime

Answer 17

Includes the syllables vowel and it’s remaining consonants.

Ex: block, mat, bran

ock/at/an are the rime

Question 18

Phonics

Answer 18

The study of the relationships between the spoken sounds in words and the printed letters that correspond to those sounds, or letter-sound correspondence.

(Sound-letter relationships)

Question 19

Explicit phonics instruction

Answer 19

Letters and their corresponding sounds are first taught in isolation, then blended into words, and finally applied to decodable text.

-Vc
-vcc
-cvcc
-cvc