Literacy Development Flashcards
1
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Productive Skills
A
learners actively create language
Speaking and Writing are productive skills.
2
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Receptive Skills
A
learners take in and process language
Listening and Reading are receptive skills.
3
Q
Ideographic
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a written system that is a set of pictorial representations of concepts
English is an alphabetic language, not an ideographic language.
4
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Literacy-Related Abilities
A
skills having to do with reading and writing
A student writing a response to a book read in class is demonstrating literacy-related abilities.
5
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Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) / Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
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ELLs with significant gaps in literacy in their home language due to limited educational opportunities
