Praxis 5002 (ELA) Flashcards
Phonemic Awareness
understanding individual sounds (mostly auditory)
Phonological Awareness
The use of both Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Phonics
understanding the relationship between sounds and spelling patterns (i.e. blending)
The ability to map certain sounds in words based on written letters (/ch/)
Syllables
units of pronunciation having one vowel sound (can be with or without consonants)
Onsets
the beginning consonant/consonant cluster
Rime
The vowel and consonants following an onset
Morphology
the study of words and their forms
Morphemes
the smallest units of meaning in words (firehouse = fire + house)
Spelling Conventions
the rules that English words follow
Sight Words
words that do not follow english language rules and cannot be sounded out (should be memorized)
Decodable Words
words that can be sounded out and follow letter-sound correspondence and spelling conventions
Roots
the parts of words, without affixes, that provide the basic meaning of the word
Affixes
the parts of a word that are added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of a word
Compound words
two words put together to make one
WIDA
World-class Instructional Design and Assessment - organization that supports multilingual students and creates standards and assessments to help with the instruction of ELLs
WIDA’s 5 components
1 - Guiding principles of Language Development
2 - Developmentally Appropriate Academic Language in Sociocultural Contexts
3- Performance Definitions
4 - Can Do Descriptors
5 - Standards Matrices
WIDA 6 Stages
1 - Entering
2 - Beginning
3 - Developing
4 - Expanding
5- Bridging
6 - Reaching
WIDA Stage 1
Entering
- pictorial or graphic representation
- one step directions or commands with visual support
WIDA Stage 2
Beginning
- phrases or short sentences
- grammatical errors impede meaning
WIDA Stage 3
Developing
- general and some specific language
- expanded sentences
- grammatical errors impede communication but not meaning
WIDA Stage 4
Expanding
- specific and some technical language
- varying sentence lengths and complexity
- minimal grammatical errors
WIDA Stage 5
Bridging
- technical language
- variety of sentence length and complexity
- approaching comparability to English proficient peers
WIDA Stage 6
Reaching
- specialized or technical language reflective of grade level
- linguistic complexity as required by grade level
- English comparable to proficient English peers
Linguistic Complexity
the quantity and variety of language used by ELLs at the discourse level and refers to how ELLs express their ideas and understand interactions
Language Usage
refers to type and use of structures, phrases, and words
B.F. Skinner
Provided one of the earliest explanations of language acquisition. Based on environmental factors or influences. Positive reinforcement
Noam Chomsky
“Father of Modern Linguistics”
All humans share the same underlying linguistic structure irrespective of sociocultural difference
Closed Syllable
syllable with a single vowel followed by one or more consonants
Open Syllable
Syllable that ends with a single vowel and the vowel is usually long
Syntactic
refers to the structure of the sentence
Semantic
Refers to the meaning of the sentence
Fluency
reading without having to stop and decode
Prosody
reading with expression while correctly using words and pronuciations