School Age Language Final Flashcards
Orthography definition
Knowledge required to represent spoken language in writing
Four “language knowledge blocks” for spelling
Phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics
Morphology in spelling involves
Ability to consider the morphemic structure of words and how spellings change as a result of adding a morpheme
Semantics in spelling involves
Understanding how meaning affects spelling (they’re, their, there)
Spelling skills are highly correlated with…
Word level reading, reading comprehension, written composition
Sigler’s “overlapping waves theory” says that ….
Children have access to and use the 4 language knowledge blocks for spelling at different ages
How to conduct a spelling assessment
Don’t use standardized tests for treatment planning and measuring effects of instruction. Instead,
- Elicit a sample of words
- Identify orthographic patterns that are misspelled
- Describe the nature of spelling errors
How to create a spelling list
Choose words from ELA curriculum
- preferred method is to use hierarchical arrangement representing the complexity in the four language knowledge blocks
Phonological problem may be present if
A pattern in not represented or with a referent that is incorrect but similar to the target “rn” for rain or “pig” for “peg”
Orthographic problem may be present if
A pattern is used that is rarely correct (“ran” for rain)
May be the MGR if
The target pattern is spelled with a pattern that is incorrect but plausible (“rane” for “rain”)
Things to do when measuring progress
For RTI, be sure to omit any words that will be used during instruction
- Use percent words correct (PWC)
- Use Spelling Sensitivity Score (SSS) to get a clear picture of errors
To facilitate learning, scaffolding structure…
I do, we do, y’all do, you do
How would facilitate word sorts ?
Provide 2 contrasting patterns (final /dz/ written with either ‘ge ‘or ‘dge’
- Student sorts words
- Verbalize why they believe words are written differently
- Write the pattern in the spelling journal
Factors that influence writing sills:
State and school standards, variety of linguistic and cognitive abilities, literacy experiences, intrinsic motivation
What happens in the early writing state (4-8 years)
One of the main contexts is drawing
Around 4, children produce writing marks linearly with regular spacing
Studies indicate that writing changes from social prop to a social mediator
By the end of 1st grade, most are “conventional writers”- connected discourse that another conventionally literate person can read without too much difficulty and that the child can read conventionally
Characteristics of later writing (age 9+)
Can use “learning to write” vs. “writing to learn” sense of thinking
- Facility with macrostructure- genres of writing
- Facility with microstructure- sentence grammar
- Microstructure (sentence grammar)
- Writing process
By age 7 what should storytelling abilities be like?
Capable of telling well-formed stories
Writing well formed narratives should happen by
5th grade
Characteristics of LLD written narratives…
Write shorter narratives with more grammatical errors
Characteristics of expository macrostructure
Informative and logically based
Often encounter new information, new vocabulary, and new concepts
Types of expository macrostructures
Compare/contrast, description, problem/solution, causation
Characteristics of development of persuasive macrostructure
Last of the genres to become proficient
Over time, use of statements without supporting evidence decreases and increase in use of compromise
Use of negotiation markers increases
What are some negotiation markers?
Counterarguments, obligation and judgement, degree of certainty, writer endorsement
List and describe stages in Kroll’s evolution of spoken/written form relationships
- Preparation phase: texts are not up to the standard of spoken language
- Consolidation phase: writing closely resembles speech
- Differentiation phase: “written” grammar emerges
- Integration phase: writers move easily between oral and written form
Microstructure elements important for narratives
Coordination and complement clauses
Default organizational scheme
Microstructure elements important for expository clauses
- adverbial clauses
- links clauses and sentences with array of lexical and phrasal connectives
- increased word length, lexical density, register, and noun abstractness with age
How does revision change as age increases?
More time is devoted age increases
Sentence level vs. organizational and content changes
How do younger and older students think about planning
- younger students just ‘think about planning’
- older students (by 4th grade) use graphic organizers
Oral language characteristics associated with writing quality
Oral volubility and verbal IQ
Four common cognitive domains
Content knowledge, conscious knowledge of written language, cognitive and linguistic subsystems, procedural knowledge
What is a 504 plan?
No IEP but have accommodations
What are the important parts of an IEP?
- Evaluation results
- Present level of educational performance
- Annual goals
- Amount of services
- Supplementary aids or services
- Participation in regular education environments
- Test modifications
- Transition services
- Attendance page
What are the components of present level of performance
Describes the needs of the student
Includes strengths, interests, and preferences, concerns of the parent
Identifies area of need and current level of functioning
Summary of evaluation info
Translates technical jargon into clear, concise statements
Four main categories in present level of performance
- Academic achievement, functional performance, and learning characteristics
- Social development
- Physical development
- Management needs
Goals should be…
Collaborative
Relate to the school environment
Support and link to the Common Core Standards
Be SMART goals
SMART stands for
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time bound
Example of a SMART goal
In one month, Kelly will categorize objects into the categories of ‘food’, clothing, and transportation in 4/5 trials over 3 consecutive sessions. Progress will be measured daily.
What happens at IEP meetings?
Review current academic and social progress
Design a plan that specifically meets child’s needs
Review evals
Discuss eligibility for special ed services
Analyze what works
Identify where more help may be needed
Establish SMART goals
Who attends the IEP meeting?
Special ed teacher General ed teacher Parente Student (if appropriate) District rep If it an initial meeting or 3 year reevaluation (triennial), a school psychologist must attend as well
Intervention principles in L4L
Use curriculum based instruction
Integrate oral and written language
Incorporate the “metas”
Collaborate
Examples of clinician directed techniques
Drill work
CBT- explicit directives, think aloud
Child centered intervention principeles
Create optimal task conditions
Guide selective attention
Provide external support
Semantic treatment examples
Knowledge checklist Describe or give an example Create an illustration Make connections (predict-gram, word maps, word ladders) Use spoken and written contexts Discuss new words with peers
Metacognitive approach to semantics examples
-Guess meaning based on context
- Look up word and write down definition
- Reread word and definition
Relate meaning to story
How to work on word finding
Familiar scripts with visual map
Timed, repetitive practice
Organize phonologically
Give phonological “clues (i’m looking at the picture that starts with the /b/ sound)
How to work on inferencing
Prediction activities (what do you think is going to happen next?) Peer to peer story exchange (have students write a story and leave off ending , have a peer come up with an ending) Sentence bridges (give them two sentences with something in the middle and they have to bridge them together)
How to work on morphology
Point out relations in meaning and spelling
How to remediate complex sentences
Use sentences from classroom literature
Combine simple sentences (what conjunction should they use?)
Paraphrase
How to teach noun phrase elaboration
Give a group of students cards with modifiers or prepositional phrases
Color coded phrase strips (how does it make the sentence silly or better? How does the order of the words impact the meaning?)
How to teach verb phrase elaboration
Insert target into existing literature (fill in -ing ending)
Adverbs - fill in the blank. take lines from a fictional story. use adverb to describe how character said that line
How to target pragmatics
Student tells peer how to complete a task
Contextual variation through role play (polite to friends vs. polite to teacher)
Topic maintenance
Barrier games and peer editing (describing something to someone on the other side of the barrier)
Purposelly unclear messages
Remediating pragmatics in classroom discourse
Modify demands of classroom Role play class situations (participating in a discussion, turn taking, receiving feedback)
How to target narrative comprehension
Before the story, use a preparatory set. Title and topic, predict based on title, literature webbing (put story events on index cards. do they match up?)
What is STEWS?
- Skim through the pages of the story. What clues do they give you?
- Title- What does it tell you the story might be about?
- Examine pictures, headings, maps for clues. What new predictions can you make?
- Words that might be important to the story. What words are new to you that you will need to understand?
- Setting- will it be fact or fiction?
How to target narrative comprehension
Insert questions during reading Summarize Explain new words Clarify pronoun referent Provide cohesive ties Teacher think aloud
How to target narrative comprehension after reading
Repeat scaffolded exposure (story grammar, then summarize, then analyze character motivations/feelings) Graphic organiziers Visual imagery Internal state start QART technique for answering questions