Language Arts and Reading Flashcards
What are the 5 components of reading?
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
What is phonemic awareness?
The ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds of spoken language.
What is Phonics?
knowledge of the relationship between written letters and the sounds of spoken language.
What are the phases of word recognition?
- Pre-Alphabetic
- Partial Alphabetic
- Full Alphabetic
- Graphophonemic
- Morphemic
What is Pre-alphabetic?
Preschool Emergent Literacy
Uses visual clues in the printed word to identify the word or guess from context
What is Partial Alphabetic?
Can now recognize some words. Recognizes relationship between letters and sounds although they may focus on specific easily idntifiable parts of the word.
What is Full Alphabetic?
Can decode unfamiliar words and store fully analyzed sight words in memory. They can think about sounds for each letter and blend them together to arrive at the pronuciation.
What is Graphophonemic?
This is often referred to as phonics. It is the sound relationship between the symbol and the sounds of a spoken language.
What is Morphemic?
It is the smallest meaninful unit in a language.
Example: Triangle Tri and Angle = 2 morphemes
What are 3 critical think stragies for reading comprehension?
- Making connections
- Making predictions
- Questioning
What are 3 types of connections to text that aid reading comprehension?
- Text to Self
- Text to Text
- Text to World
What are 4 types of questions that help students make meaning of text?
- Right There
- Think and Search
- Reader and Author
- On My Own
- Summarizing
What are “Right There” questions?
Answer is in the text. (text explicit)
What are “Think & Search” questions?
Open ended without a set of answers. (text implicit)
What are “Reader & Author” questions?
Reader can combine his exp with what the text states. (text implicit or exp based)
What are “On My Own” questions?
The reader generates an answer from prior knowledge which may not need to read the text but the text could shape his answer differently. ( text implicity or explicit)
What are the components of reading fluency?
- Accuracy
- Automaticity
- Rate
- Prosody
What is automaticity?
Instantly recognize a large group of words.
What is Prosody?
Appropriate rhythm, intonation and expression.
Name some instructional methods for fluency?
- repetitive or repeated reading
- oarl reading
- echo reading
- choral reading
- time reading
- readers theatre
- audiobooks
- poetry readings
- independent
- paired reading
Name some essential skills that aid reading comprehension?
- Main idea
- Supporting details
- authors purpose
- fact and opinion
- point of view
- inference
- visulaize
- conclusion
Name some instructional methods fro comprehension?
- activiating prior knowledge
- summarizing
- self monitoring (being aware of their thinking as they read)
- questioning
- graphic and semantic organizers
- think alouds (talk to the text) - teacher models her thoughts aloud while reading
- recognize story structure
What is concepts of print?
- Print conveys meaning
- directionality
- concept of a word
- phonemic awareness
- literacy language (author, title & so on)
Name some literary genres
- poetry
- folklore
- fantasy
- science fiction
- realistic fiction
- historical fiction
- biography
- non fiction
Name some literary elements
- Setting
- Characters
- Plot
- Theme
- Style
What are some literary devices?
- Alliteration
- Hyperbole
- Onomatopoeia
- Analogy
- Irony
- Personification
- Climax
- Metaphor
- Simile
What is alliteration?
repetion of an inital consanent sound
“a peck of pickled peppers”
What is hyperbole?
exageration is used for emphasis or effect
“I could eat a million of these”
What is onomatopoeia?
formation of words that imitate sounds
“hiss or buzz”
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to a thing
What is a metaphor?
implied comparison is made between 2 unlike things that actually have something in common
What is similie?
uses like or as
What are the stages of writing?
- Pre writing: brainstorming
- Drafting: ideas to paper
- Revising: refining draft, focus is on meaning
- Editing: prrofread
- Publishing
Name some modes of writing?
- Narrative writing
- Persuasive writing
- Descriptive writing
- Expository writing
- Informative writing
- Creative writing
What is a norm-referenced test?
compare a persons score against the scores of a group of people who have taken the same test.
What is criterion reference test?
intended to measure how well a person has learned a specific body of knowledge
What is diagnostic assessment?
standardized tests - aim to determine a students strength and weakness
