Week 2

Question 1

Dynamic Literacy

Answer 1

A readers ability to interrelate content to other knowledge through both deductive and inductive reasoning

Question 2

Critical Literacy

Answer 2

A readers ability to actively interpret between the lines, analyze and synthesize information and to be able to explain content

Question 3

Phonological Awareness

Answer 3

Knowledge of the sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words

Question 4

Decoding

Answer 4

Breaking or segmenting a written word into its component sounds and then blending them Together to form a recognizable word

Question 5

Literacy

Answer 5

Use of visual modes of communication specifically reading and writing

Question 6

Code Switching

Answer 6

The process in which bilingual speakers transfer between 2 languages based on the listener, context and topic

Question 7

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Answer 7

Damage to the brain that results from bruising and laceration caused by forceful contact with the relatively tough inner surfaces of the skull or from secondary edema or swelling infraction or death of tissue and hematoma on focal bleeding

Question 8

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Answer 8

Term used to characterize individuals at the severe end of the pervasive developmental disorder continuum ASD is an impairment in reciprocal social interaction with severely limited behavior, interest, and activity repertoire that has its onset before 30 months of age

Question 9

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Answer 9

Hyperactivity and attentional difficulties in children who do not manifest other characteristics of learning disabilities

Question 10

Executive Function

Answer 10

Aspect of metacognition used in self regulation and including the ability to attend, to set reasonable goals, to plan and organize to achieve each goal, to initiate,monitor, and evaluate one’s performance in relation to that goal, revise plans and strategies based on feedback

Question 11

Working Memory

Answer 11

An active process that allows limited information to be held in a temporary accessible state while cognitive processing occurs

Question 12

Specific Language Impairment

Answer 12

A language impairment in the absence of hearing, oral, structural, oral functioning, cognitive, or perceptual deficits

Question 13

Intellectual Disability

Answer 13

Substantial limitations in intellectual functioning, significant limitations in adaptive behavior consisting of conceptual, social, and practical skills originally before 18 years of age

Question 14

Metalinguistic Skills

Answer 14

Abilities to enable a child to consider language in the abstract, to make judgements about the connections of language, and to create verbal contexts, such as writing

Question 15

Mean Length of Utterance

Answer 15

Average length of utterances, measured in morphemes. In English this is an important measure of preschool development because language increases in complexity as it becomes longer

Question 16

Fast Mapping

Answer 16

A process in which a child infers the meaning of a word from context and uses it in a similar context at a later time. Fast mapping enables preschool children to expand their vocabulary quickly by being able to use a word without fully understanding the meaning

Question 17

Reformulation

Answer 17

An adult response to a child’s utterance in which the adults provide a more complex example of what the child has said

Question 18

Lexicon

Answer 18

An individual’s personal dictionary

Question 19

Language Impairment

Answer 19

Heterogeneous group of deficits and or immaturities in the comprehension and or production of spoken or written language

Question 20

Dialogic Reading

Answer 20

Picture book interactive sharing between a caregiver and young child, in which caregivers try to get children involved in the reading process by asking them questions about the story or allowing a child to tell the story

Question 21

Metacognition

Answer 21

Knowledge about knowledge and cognitive process, including self appraisal

Question 22

Print Awareness

Answer 22

Knowledge of the meaning and function of print, including recognition of words and letters and of terminology such as letter, word, or sentence

Question 23

Hyperlexia

Answer 23

A mild form of pervasive development disorder characterized by an inordinate interest in letters and words and by the early ability to read but with little comprehension

Question 24

Story grammar

Answer 24

Common elements and event sequence in narratives