Terms to know
The smallest unit of language with meaning
What is a morpheme?
These are the four language arts.
What are reading, writing, speaking, and listening?
This type of prompt encourages children to make connections to their own lives.
What is distancing?
Children engage in independent work in these settings while the teacher is working with small groups for guided reading.
"Me want cookie" is this kind of speech.
What is telegraphic speech?
Skills with the of the sound of language that is important to develop before children are ready to decode text.
What is phonological awareness.
These language arts are connected to receptive language.
What are speaking and writing?
This type of reading encourages children and adults to have conversations about a book.
What is dialogic reading?
Adults engage in this practice when they point out aspects of a text such as punctuation and directionality of print.
What is print referencing?
These types of text promote the development of memory, phonological awareness, and vocabulary in texts that are both rhythmic and rhyming at times.
What are poetry and songs?
This term names how readers connect sound to symbol in the brain.
What is orthographic mapping?
These language arts are connected to receptive language.
What are reading and listening?
You can use this ackronym to remember the various ways you can prompt children during dialogic reading.
What is CROWD?
Considering the stage where a child is at in their language or literacy development rather than their chronological age.
What is thinking developmentally?
Early childhood teachers should encourage families to do these three things with their children every day. (Hint: You created components for all of these things in your book box!)
What are talking, reading, and singing?
"Cookie" said to mean "I would like another cookie" is what kind of phrase?
What is a holophrastic phrase.
These language arts feature most prominently in preschool classroom activities.
What are speaking and listening?
Early childhood teachers should use a variety of books from these categories of literature and know these categories for the content test.
What are the various genres of children's literature?
These are the categories that encompass the skills that children must develop in becoming a reader.
What are code and meaning
These are the visual symbols that represent the sounds in an language.
what are graphemes
The teacher and children share the pen during this activity to compose a piece of text.
What is interactive writing?
These standards cross all PreK to 12th grade content.
What are the anchor standards for language arts?
These types of books are important to read to young children to promote the development of their background knowledge.
What is informational/nonfiction text?
This kind of instruction helps children connect sound (phonemes) and the symbols (letters) they see.
What is phonics instruction?
This type of play encourages the use of oral language skills in conversation with peers and adults.
What is sociodramatic play?