Exam #2 Flashcards
Why is literacy important?
-Important for communication, academic success, career success
-May lead to less classroom participation, professional issues, confusion, social withdrawal
Define phonological awareness
The ability to think about, reflect on, and manipulate the sound structures of a language.
Define orthographic awareness
The ability to translate spoken language into its written form based on the allowable spelling sequences of a language.
Define semantic awareness
The understanding that words have meanings.
Semantic relationships (synonyms and antonyms)
Define Morphological awareness
The recognition that words can be divided into their component morphemes enabling listeners to identify families of words and their shared meanings.
Define syntactic awareness
The ability to arrange words in patterns that help a reader or listener to understand novel word meanings and larger concepts not encountered before.
What is onset/rhyme?
Onset= word that starts with a consonant
Rhyme= word that starts with a vowel
_________ informs literacy!
Language
Define phonemic awareness
ability to isolate and manipulate individual sounds (or phonemes), that are important in early word decoding
What are the stages of phonological awareness?
- Phoneme awareness and identification
- Letter identification
- Encoding and decoding print
In addition to formal, standardized testing measures, what else can we assess?
Phonological Awareness
Print Awareness
Letter Name Knowledge
Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence
Print Motivation
Home Literacy
According to Paul, Norbury, and Gosse (2018), for older children, we want to assess:
Morphosyntactic Awareness
Reading Fluency
Comprehension
High/low context communication-?
high context “how someone says something”, “low context” = what someone says
What are polyglots?
Polyglots= multilingual individuals
Language acquisition critical language period?
Language acquisition better prior to puberty
Define dialect
regional or cultural variation within a language that is used by a particular group of speakers.