Literacy Acquisition And Reading Instryction Flashcards
Letters represent the sounds of a language. Every written language depends on this. Students need to make the connection that a combination of letters represent a series of sounds based on a relationship between the letters and the corresponding sounds.
Alphabetic principle
Straightforward method of passing information from a teacher to a student.
Direct instruction
What is scaffolding?
A process by which teachers initially provide the reading assistance, and the gradually shift the responsibility of the learning to the students.
A critical concept in pedagogy for all subjects and all grade levels, provides support for students to help them move toward literacy independence.
Scaffolding
Student reading along while an expert reads fluently. By modeling the reading the expert demonstrates what it is that good readers do.
Shared reading
A composition of a text created by both teacher and students.
Shared writing
Words that students should be able to recognize as soon as the students sees them in print.they are critical to the success of emergent readers.
Sight words
What is mega cognition?
The knowledge that the text exist in their minds when activated by the readers thoughts.thinking bout thinking.
A collection of words organized in a system and displayed visibly in a classroom.
Word wall
The system of sound in a language.
Phonology
Each single sound in languages is called
Phoneme; in the English language there are approximately 44 phonemes.
Requires students to separate the sounds in a word by speaking each of the sounds separately in the order in which they appeared in the word.
Sound segmentation.
A unit that is larger than a phoneme. Sounding out the individual syllable in a multisyllabic word can help the student recognize the word’s meaning.
Syllable
The process of splitting a word into its separate syllables is called
Syllabication
Comprehension strategies are?
Retreading, making connections, prior knowledge, retell a story, make inferences, ask relevant questions, guided reading kwl chart, graphic organizers and answering questions.
