Literacy Flashcards
Like speech, literacy involves ___ and ___
comprehension; expression
One indicator for future literacy skills is
language/speech abilities in early years
Six factors influencing literacy skills
Genetics
Environment
Socio-economic status
Experience with language
Whether or not they went to preschool
Overall health
Two important aspects of reading
decoding and comprehension
IN LITERACY
This reading method broadly has to do with phonological awareness
Decoding
IN LITERACY
This reading method broadly has to do with language knowledge
Comprehension
Breaking up word into component sounds, blending them into a recognizable word, and word interpretation based on grammar, word meanings and context
Decoding
knowledge of sounds, sound structure and syllables of given words
Phonological Awareness
ability to manipulate sounds
Phonemic awareness
creating word from individual sounds and syllables
Blending
dividing words into its parts
Segmentation
Factors that affect phonological awareness in preschool years
Socioec background
Speech sound accuracy
Vocab
organizing units for sounds
Syllables
two parts of a syllable
onset and rime
Two parts of a rime
nucleus and coda
two main types of reading processes
bottom-up
top-down
Readers tend to go from __ to __ processing
bottom-up; top-down
Bottom-up reading starts from figuring out the __ and __ of the writing. Top-down reading starts from figuring out the ___
morphemes; phonemes; meaning
ability to read quickly and precisely
Reading Fluency
Three factors that can influence reading comprehension
Speech skills
Cognition
Family struggles with language
Word identification __ get directly transferred to reading comprehension skills
doesn’t