Lecture 2 - Literacy in Children Flashcards

1
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How does literacy effect a client’s quality of life?

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-Better participation in education & life
- Better Opportunities for employment
- Literacy for technology – email, text, etc. – need this to be functional in society
• Literacy is important for social relationships

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what are the 7 Literacy Bill of Rights?

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RIGHT TO:

1) learn to read and right
2) accessible and meaningingful texts
3) interact with others by reading or writing or text
4) life choices that require reading/writing
5) educational opportunities on literacy instruction/use
6) Teachers knowledgable about literacy methods and principles
7) Live/learn in environments that provide varied models of print use

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3
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what are the 4 components of Literacy?

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Reading, Writing, Listening and Expressing (always interacting to build a literacy model)

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How are home literacy experiences different for PWUAAC?

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  • Less reading aloud
  • fewer label and requests to point
  • interactions imbalanced (partner dominates, kid gives up turns)
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5
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What do AAC kids need to develop literacy (4 points)

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1) print rich environment
2) Repeated reading of fav books
3) Computers
4) Manipulatives

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6
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Is there an age at which literacy can no longer be learned?

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NO - there is no “too late” to learn to read and write

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7
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Only ____% of AAC users learn to read at grade level

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10%

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8
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True or false - AAC users have poor phonological schools

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true

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9
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How does exposure to alphabet relate to literacy development

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The more exposure the better!

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10
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What is a possible explanation for the lack of literacy interactions for AAC users?

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Physical care takes more time away from reading/writing. Might not be high on the priority list/ don’t know how to start

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11
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the typical child hears their fav story read aloud _____-_____times

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200-400

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12
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What does ALL stand for? and what does this approach include

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Accessible Literacy Learning

- includes teaching special needs clients ages 3-50 some basic reading skills (research based)

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How much instruction did the ALL approach involve?

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1-2 times a week for 30-45 min

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What were the results of the research using the ALL teaching procedure?

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All participants made substantial gains in learning:
> letter-sound correspondence
> Phonological awareness skills
> decoding and writing
> to read simple words
> sight word recognition
> to read simple sentences/stories
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15
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The ALL program includes pre-made materials for (6 points)

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> Sound blending
> Phoneme segmentation
> Letter-sound correspondences
> Decoding 3 letter words
> Recognition of sight words
> Shared reading
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16
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What does sound blending include? what is it essential for and what type of skill is this?

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> knowing sounds of each word = essential skill to read
ability to blend sounds to determine word
phonological awareness skill

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What is phoneme segmentation? What is it essential for and what type of skill is this?

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Ability to break words down into individual sounds = essential for writing (break word into components, letter-sound correspondence)
> phonological awareness skill

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18
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blending is the _______ of phoneme segmentation

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opposite

19
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What skills are required to decode 3 letter words? (5 points)

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> recognize the letters
> associate letter with sound
> hold sound sequence in memory
> Blend sounds together
> retrieve word meaning
20
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How does the child indicate understanding of the 3 letter word?

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Points to the corresponding picture on a response plate with 4 options

21
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ALL maximizes _________ by……

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Participation
> eliminates oral/written responses (pointing instead)
i.e. allows alternative modes of response

22
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What information do the ALL results give us?

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Insight into areas of difficulty

> provides systemic error analysis

23
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What is External Scaffolding?

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> teacher models saying sounds aloud, encourage learner to move from reading aloud to reading in their heads (subvocally)
Gradually reduce oral scaffolding

24
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What skills are required for reading comprehension? (5 points)

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> decode words in text
> understand word meaning
> relate meaning to rest of text
> Activate prior knowledge
> Monitor comprehension throughout
25
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What does the Comprehensive Literacy Approach include.

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Comprehensive, conventional literacy instruction

“Everything Everyday”

26
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What is emergent literacy ?

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Child’s skills before they develop conventional and independent skills and understandings

27
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What are the 3 elements of the disability triangle?

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1) time
2) Engagement
3) Access

(all centre around the affected person)

28
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What are the 7 principles to good literacy?

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> repetition and variety
> Focus on communication
> Offer real purposes
> Develop use of inner voice
> Provide informative feedback
> Use knowledge of learner to make instructional decisions
> High expectations
29
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What are 5 evidence based literacy routines that lead to growth? (need exposure to each every day)

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1) Shared reading
2) Independent reading
3) Predictable chart reading
4) Alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness
5) independent writing

30
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If the student does NOT know most of letters, does not engage in shared reading, has no effective means of communication/interaction and doesn’t understand that writing involves letters and words you should employ daily ______ interventions which include: (5 points)

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EMERGENT interventions

1) Shared reading
2) Predicatble chart writing
3) alphabet/phonological awareness
4) Independent writing with access to full alphabet
5) symbol based communication

31
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If the student DOES know most of letters, engages in shared reading, has effective means of communication/interaction and understands that writing involves letters and words you should employ daily ______ interventions which include: (5 points)

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CONVENTIONAL interventions

1) guided reading
2) word study
3) Writing
4) Self-directed reading
5) Communication with symbols and spelling

32
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What is route 66?

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web based service to teach reading and writing

33
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What is Readtopia?

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Comprehensive curriculum, with literature and resources to go with this

34
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What is adapted reading?

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Practical hands on things that you can do with books to get kids interested

35
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What are the two types of the stories under the Storybook Centered thematic approach

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> Books for enjoyment/enrichment

> Books for Literacy/language learning

36
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What does a single symbol adaptation include?

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Using a single symbol for each page for early emergent readers

37
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What does the multiple word adaptation include?

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Identifies books that support transitions to use 2-3 symbols (one short sentence per page)

38
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What is a word for word adaptation?

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Attempt to keep symbols on a single line by making cells smaller for little words

39
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What are some basic symbols you can add to story books?

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> image of main character
colour symbols
cover symbol, the end and read again on the back

40
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How can you adapt a book to be more accessible?

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Page fluffers (velcro, popsicle sticks), extendors, highlights, recorded books (or a switch that says repeated line in book)

41
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To start teaching writing start with generative _____ vocabulary

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CORE

42
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What is errorless writing?

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Give child sentence options for how they want to start the story . This way they can produce a story without fear of making errors - great place to start!

43
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True or false, copying is a great way to start teaching writing skills

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NOOOOOO - copying is a fine motor skill that teaches nothing about the meaning of print

44
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What is an alphabet flip chart (AKA an alternative pencil)

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Flip chart in ABC oder, child selects the letter they want then allow them to scribble