Foundations Of Reading Development Flashcards
Oral language
Refers to speaking and understanding spoken words. Oral language skills allow individuals to express their thoughts, ideas, and emotions and comprehend others.
Reading stories aloud
Contributes to the development of oral language skills.
Structure of oral language
Phonology > Morphology > Semantics > Syntax > Pragmatics
Phonology
the study of the sound structure of spoken language and is one of the five components of oral language.
Understanding phonology supports the development of phonological awareness and is a component of early literacy and language development.
Phonemes
Individual speech sounds
Graphemes
Letters or letter combinations that represent phonemes
Phonemes
/b/ /r/ /oo/ /m/
4 phonemes
Graphemes
b r oo m
4 graphemes
Letters
b r o o m
5 letters
The English language consists of
44 phonemes represented by only 26 letters in the English alphabet.
Vowels
Sounds that are produced without closing the vocal tract
Diphthongs
Two vowels in the same syllable that “glide” from one vowel sound into another (e.g., oy in boy)
Semivowels
The consonants y and w, which may also act as vowels in some instances (e.g., -ay, -ow)
Consonants
Sounds produced through a partially or completely closed vocal tract
Articulation
Consonants can be categorized further by their place of articulation, manner of articulation, and whether they are voiced or unvoiced.
Place of articulation
Refers to where the sound is produced in the mouth and how different parts of the vocal tract interact with the produced sound.
Manner of articulation
Refers to how the airflow is restricted or affected during the formation of the sound.
Stop sounds
Consonant sounds in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow stops.
Fricatives
Consonants produced when the air moving through the mouth creates audible friction.
Nasals
Consonants produced when air moves through both the nose and mouth in the production of the sound.
Affricatives
Combination between stop sounds and fricatives.
Morphemes
The smallest meaningful units of language that have meaning. A single word or letter may be a morpheme (e.g., I, the, apple, basket, -s, -y), or words may be formed by combining multiple morphemes such as roots, bases, and affixes.
Example : coffee + maker = coffeemaker
run + ing = running
Semantics
WORD AND PHRASE MEANINGS.
The meaning system of language. Semantics is what attaches meaning to the sentence and ensures it makes sense. The sentences below both use correct syntax; however only one MAKES SENSE, which is SEMANTICS.
Syntax
Sentence structure & grammar rules
Syntax refers to how words are combined to form meaningful sentences. Understanding the syntax may continue developing along with understanding complex language and language structures.
Development Example:
Dog go —> The dog goes outside.
Pragmatics
COMMUNICATION RULES!!!!
Refers to the SOCIAL RULES and CONVENTIONS that guide how language effectively communicates with others in a given situation. It involves understanding the definitions of words and how context and tone may affect their meaning.
Instructional approaches
-leading students in guided discussions
-encouraging students to produce oral narratives
-asking students to retell stories
-introducing and modeling the use of key or subject-specific vocabulary
-interactive read-alouds
Activities that support oral language use
-dramatic play
-text-based discussions
-reciprocal teaching
-Socratic seminars
-think-alouds or verbalizing thinking
Morphology
Word parts and their meaning
Phonology
Awareness of sounds
A first grade student excitedly brings his book to his teacher and points to a picture of a bat and bag. He says, “They rhyme!!”
Phonology
Unvoiced
Sound occurs when the vocal cord remain open and do not vibrate.
During a conversation, the teacher noticed that a second-grade student was unable to correctly pronounce words with inflectional endings.
Morphology
Phonological awareness
Is the awareness of and ability to work with sounds in spoken language. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term with various sub-skills falling under it.
Phonological awareness continuum includes: sentence segmentation, rhyming, alliteration, syllabication, onset-rime, and phonemic awareness.
What is the skill:
“Listen as a say two small words: base-ball. Put the two words together to make a compound word.”
“Baseball”
Word awareness
What is the skill:
“I am going to say a sentence. How many words are in the sentence: The dog ran outside.”
“Four”
Sentence segmentation
What is the skill:
“How many syllables are in the word yellow?”
“Two.”
Syllables
What is the skill:
While holding a piece with each, “This is a bat, a bun, a spider, and a bug. Which one doesn’t belong?”
“Spider.”
Alliteration
What is the skill:
“Which one of these words does not rhyme? Bat, sat, pin.”
“Pin”
Rhyme
What is the skill:
“In the word sit, what is the onset?”
SR: “/s/.”
“What is the rime?”
SR: “/it/.”
Onset and rime
Phonemic awareness
The understanding that words can be broken down into individual phonemes (sounds). It is the ability to blend, segment, and manipulate speech sounds in spoken words.
Isolation
Identifying the beginning, middle, or ending phoneme.
Blending
Putting phonemes together to say the word
Segmenting
Breaking a word into the individual phonemes
Manipulation
Adding, subtracting, or changing a phoneme in a word.
Short vowels
represented by one letter.
Long vowels
Represented by 1 or 2 letters, mostly 2.
Examples: say, bee, pie.
“What is the first sound in the word ship?”
“Sh”
Isolation
“What is the middle sound in the word cup?”
“/u/“
Isolation
“What is the final sound in the word log?”
“/g/“
Isolation
“I am going to say some sounds. I want you to blend them and tell me the word that the sounds make. /ch/ /i/ /p/.”
“Chip”
Blending
“I am going to say a word, and I want you to tell me the sounds in the word. The word is map.”
“/m/ /a/ /p/.”
Segmenting
“Say top”
“Top”
“Add /s/ to the beginning of the word. What is the new word?”
“Stop”
Addition
“Say leg”
“Leg”
“Now take away the /l/ sound. What is the new word?”
“Egg”
Deletion
“Say slid”
“Slid”
“Now change the /i/ to /e/. What is the new word?”
“Sled”
Substitution
Systematic instruction
-Introduce closed-syllable words with two to three phonemes before closed-syllable words with blends or digraphs.
-introduce short vowel sounds before long vowel sounds.
-continue to introduce increasingly complex concepts, while regularly reviewing previously taught concepts.
Explicit instruction
When teaching students to segment phonemes, the teacher would introduce the new concept explicitly, and systematically, modeling and guiding students through each step of the process before students practice independently.
•here is the word, “sat.”
•what word did I say? That’s right, I said, “sat.”
•listen and watch me as I segment the word.
•listen while I say each one of the sounds in the word: /s/ /a/ /t/.
•how many sounds are in the word “sat”?
•this time we will do it together. Sat: /s/ /a/ /t/, sat.
Multisensory strategies
Elkonin boxes
Counters/tiles
Finger tapping phonemes in words
Clapping syllables
Hand motions to segment or blend onset-rime
Visuals such as pictures of the keyword or words while hearing or saying the words aloud.