Reading and writing

Question 1

What is LASS?

Answer 1

Language acquisition support system

Question 2

What are the 4 elements of LASS?

Answer 2

• Gaining attention- Child’s focus on book
• Query- asking questions about pictures or story
• Labelling- Telling a child what an object or word is
• Feedback- responding to the child’s utterance

Question 3

What is socio-dramatic play?

Answer 3

Where children take on specific roles and act out situations that could happen in real life

Question 4

Synthetic and Analytic Phonics

Answer 4

A method used in British primary schools to teach reading

Question 5

What are Kroll’s writing stages?

Answer 5

Barry Kroll categorises them into 4 stages

Question 6

Stage 1 Kroll

Answer 6

Preparatory: basic motor skills for writing and spelling principles

Question 7

Stage 2 Kroll

Answer 7

Consolidation: Up to 6, writes how they speak, short declaratives, and/but and incomplete sentences

Question 8

Stage 3 Kroll

Answer 8

Differentiation: Up to age 9, Speaking and writing differences, recognises writing styles eg. letters, lots of mistakes, frameworks and structures followed, reflects thoughts and feelings

Question 9

Stage 4 Kroll

Answer 9

Integration: Up to 12+

Personal style developed
Understands changing style according to audience/purpose

Question 10

Graphophonic cues

Answer 10

Looking at shapes of words, linking these to graphemes to interpret them

Question 11

Semantic cue

Answer 11

Understanding word meanings and making connections between words to decode others

Question 12

Visual cues

Answer 12

Looking at the pictures and using the visual narratives to interpret unfamiliar words

Question 13

Syntactic cues

Answer 13

Applying knowledge of word order and classes to work out if a word fits into the context

Question 14

Contextual cues

Answer 14

Looking for understanding using story and own experiences/social conventions

Question 15

Miscue

Answer 15

When a child makes an error, such as missing or substituting a similar word

Question 16

SVO/ subject verb object sentences syntax

Answer 16

Using a standard sentence structure, with the subject then verb then object

Question 17

Chall’s reading stages

Answer 17

0 Pre/Pseudo reading up to 6 years

1 -Initial reading and decoding: 6-7 years simple texts and high freq. lexis

2- Confirmation and fluency: 7-8 years; quicker, accurate, fluent paying attention to meaning of words

Question 18

Key features of children’s books?

Answer 18

lexical repetition, repetition of syntax structures (SVO), simple verbs, one sentence per line, limited modifiers and text image cohesion

Question 19

What is anaphoric referencing?

Answer 19

using pronouns to refer to already named characters