Language Arts & Reading Flashcards
Print Motivation
Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials
Print awareness
Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read
Phonological awareness
Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulative or play with speechsounds
What are the components of emergent literacy
Print awareness, narrative skills, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, print motivation, & oral language
Components of oral language and definition
Phonological awareness- board understanding of the sound of language and occurs as children begin to hear speech sounds and play with them
Semantic understanding-involves understanding the morphology or meanings of words (vocab)
Syntacticunderstanding-involves the rules for using words in sentences:grammar.
Pragmatics- understanding the social and cultural use of language
Phonemic awareness
Ability to think about and manipulate the smallest units of speech: phonemes
Phoneme
The smallest unit of speech
Represented as a letter within slashes (e.g /b/)
Alphabetic principle or graphophonemic awareness
Understanding that written words are composed of letters (graphemes)
Morphemic Awareness
Dividing words into units of meaning
Phonics or graphophonemic understanding
The recognition that written letters (graphemes) represent sounds (phonemes)
Grapheme
Written symbol
Types of phonic instruction
Synthetic, Analytic, Analogy-based, Through spelling, Embedded, & Onset-rime
Accuracy
Ability to produce or sound out a word and know the words meaning
Automaticity
When a reader can identify words without conscious effort
Rate
The speed at which a reader can read a specific text and refers to silent reading rate