Language and Literacy Flashcards

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What are the five levels of language acquisition?

A
Babbling 
Holophrastic
Two-word stage
Telegraphic 
Transitional writing
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Concepts of Print

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

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Environmental print

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Product names, street signs, business names

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

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4
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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

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B) asking a student to point to a sentence

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What is Phonological awareness?

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General ability to understand that within oral language there are subparts

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What are the 4 parts of phonological awareness?

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Individual words
Syllables
Onsets- beginning consonant sound
Rimes

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Alphabetic Principal

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Words are made up of written letters that represent spoken sounds

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Phonemes

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Distinct unit of sound

Small unit of language

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Phonemic awareness

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Knowledge & ability to use phonemes

*best to teach in small groups because levels will vary

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Phoneme blending

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Involves students putting sounds together to make words

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Phoneme segmentation

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Inverse of phoneme blending and involves students sounding out a word

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Phoneme Deletion

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Phoneme is removed to make a new word.

Ramp - /p/= ram

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Phoneme substitution

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One phoneme is changed to make a new word

Fla/t/ to fla/p/

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Phonics

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Connects written language to spoken language

Correlates certain sounds with certain letters or group of letters

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letter-sound correspondence

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identification of sounds that goes with corresponding letters & letter combinations

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Decoding

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

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Sight words

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words that require no decoding and are simply memorized

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Fluency

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

19
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reading rate

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measure of speed

calculated in words per minute

20
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Accuracy

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correct decoding of words

generally entwined with rate when measuring fluency

21
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prosody

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the liveliness & expressiveness of reading

22
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True or False: Fluency is not correlated with comprehension.

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

23
Q
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
A

D: Nonfiction & informational text

24
Q
which two text usually have stories made up by the author? 
A) Literary 
B) Nonfiction
C) Fiction
D) Fairytale
A

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

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``` Fictions texts contain these three elements A) lines, stage, acts B) characters, plot, setting C) sidebars, acts, stanzas D) meters, drama, setting ```
B) Characters, plot, setting
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What are characters in a fiction text?
real or imagined people, animals, or creatures
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what is the plot of a literary or fiction text?
sequence of story events
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What is the setting?
any time or place past, present, future, real or imagined.
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``` 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 ```
A) acts, scenes, stage
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True or False: Dramas help students with expressive reading and reinforces social and emotional learning
True
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True or False: Poetry with rhyme reinforces phonological awareness
True
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What is Meter in a poem?
the rhythm or beat | * students can often clap, stomp or dance to the text
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What are the structural elements of literature?
characters, setting, conflict, plot, resolution, point of view, theme
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______ is the perspective from which the story is told.
Point of View
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"what do you think character X will do next?" will help students ________
make predictions or predict
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John's teacher asks him to summarize the book they just read. What is the teacher asking John to do?
To condense the main elements of the story.