orthography and grammar Flashcards
what is orthography?
conventions of writing a language, including spelling, punctuation and capitilisation.
what is a diagraph?
single phoneme represented by two graphemes e.g <th>
what symbol is used to quote graphemes?
< >
what 3 things may make a child seem more developed than they actually are?
1) national curriculum, phonics method of teaching and targets for age groups.
2) reading programmes, biff and chip.
3) teacher scaffolding, support and feedback.
does punctuation count as a grapheme?
yeadawwg.
what does punctuation do?
indicates prosody, intonation and tone.
what do full stops show?
the end of ideas.
what should you call it when the child makes a “mistake”?
non standard.
what should you always refer to when writing about acquisition?
scaffolding.
what’s it called when writers break orthographic rules for effect?
stylistic awareness - children rarely have this and aren’t breaking rules on purpose.
what sort of conjunction is when?
subordinating.
what sort of conjunction is and?
co-ordinating.
how can you describe grammatical development?
greater control of discourse structure and graphological understanding.
what can more sophisticated adverbials do?
make cohesive links or change direction in narrative.
what can commas providing parenthesis indicate?
understanding that ideas contained provide additional info to main clause.
