Language and Literacy

Question 1

What are the five levels of language acquisition?

Answer 1

Babbling 
Holophrastic
Two-word stage
Telegraphic 
Transitional writing

Question 2

Concepts of Print

Answer 2

Knowledge of words, letters, sentences
Knowledge of many uses of print
Knowledge of the structure of a book (title, beginning, middle, end)

Question 3

Environmental print

Answer 3

Product names, street signs, business names

Home languages around the classroom. (English, Spanish, etc)

Question 4

Which of the following will help gauge a students print awareness?
A) asking a student to recount story events
B) asking a student to point to a sentence
C) asking a student what sound P makes

Answer 4

B) asking a student to point to a sentence

Question 5

What is Phonological awareness?

Answer 5

General ability to understand that within oral language there are subparts

Question 6

What are the 4 parts of phonological awareness?

Answer 6

Individual words
Syllables
Onsets- beginning consonant sound
Rimes

Question 7

Alphabetic Principal

Answer 7

Words are made up of written letters that represent spoken sounds

Question 8

Phonemes

Answer 8

Distinct unit of sound

Small unit of language

Question 9

Phonemic awareness

Answer 9

Knowledge & ability to use phonemes

*best to teach in small groups because levels will vary

Question 10

Phoneme blending

Answer 10

Involves students putting sounds together to make words

Question 11

Phoneme segmentation

Answer 11

Inverse of phoneme blending and involves students sounding out a word

Question 12

Phoneme Deletion

Answer 12

Phoneme is removed to make a new word.

Ramp - /p/= ram

Question 13

Phoneme substitution

Answer 13

One phoneme is changed to make a new word

Fla/t/ to fla/p/

Question 14

Phonics

Answer 14

Connects written language to spoken language

Correlates certain sounds with certain letters or group of letters

Question 15

letter-sound correspondence

Answer 15

identification of sounds that goes with corresponding letters & letter combinations

Question 16

Decoding

Answer 16

ability to pronounce the sounds of written words orally and glean meaning.

Question 17

Sight words

Answer 17

words that require no decoding and are simply memorized

Question 18

Fluency

Answer 18

the rate, accuracy, and expression of a piece when read

Question 19

reading rate

Answer 19

measure of speed

calculated in words per minute

Question 20

Accuracy

Answer 20

correct decoding of words

generally entwined with rate when measuring fluency

Question 21

prosody

Answer 21

the liveliness & expressiveness of reading

Question 22

True or False: Fluency is not correlated with comprehension.

Answer 22

False: Fluency is correlated because students who struggle to read and decode will have a difficult time comprehending

Question 23

What are texts about the world around us and do not use characters convey information? 
A) fiction 
B) Nonfiction 
C) Informational text
D) Both B & C

Answer 23

D: Nonfiction & informational text

Question 24

which two text usually have stories made up by the author? 
A) Literary 
B) Nonfiction
C) Fiction
D) Fairytale

Answer 24

A & C
While they may contain true elements or based on actual events they have plenty of elements designed to capture the readers interest

Question 25

Fictions texts contain these three elements 
A) lines, stage, acts
B) characters, plot, setting
C) sidebars, acts, stanzas 
D) meters, drama, setting

Answer 25

B) Characters, plot, setting

Question 26

What are characters in a fiction text?

Answer 26

real or imagined people, animals, or creatures

Question 27

what is the plot of a literary or fiction text?

Answer 27

sequence of story events

Question 28

What is the setting?

Answer 28

any time or place past, present, future, real or imagined.

Question 29

What three elements does a drama have? 
A) acts, scenes, stage
B) point of view, rhyme, plot 
C) lines, stage, characters 
D) plot, meter, lines

Answer 29

A) acts, scenes, stage

Question 30

True or False: Dramas help students with expressive reading and reinforces social and emotional learning

Answer 30

True

Question 31

True or False: Poetry with rhyme reinforces phonological awareness

Answer 31

True

Question 32

What is Meter in a poem?

Answer 32

the rhythm or beat

* students can often clap, stomp or dance to the text

Question 33

What are the structural elements of literature?

Answer 33

characters, setting, conflict, plot, resolution, point of view, theme

Question 34

______ is the perspective from which the story is told.

Answer 34

Point of View

Question 35

“what do you think character X will do next?” will help students ________

Answer 35

make predictions or predict

Question 36

John’s teacher asks him to summarize the book they just read. What is the teacher asking John to do?

Answer 36

To condense the main elements of the story.