Oral Language is the Foundation for Literacy
This is the ability to communicate thoughts and feelings verbally and nonverbally.
What is 'Expressive Language'?
This the term for someone who speaks more than 1 dialect.
What is 'bidialectal'?
This is the term for converting print to sounds in speech.
What is 'decoding'?
This is the term for the smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a 'morpheme'?
This is the system that governs the meaning and context of words.
What is 'semantics'?
This is the comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, or other communication system.
What is 'language'?
This is the term for someone who reads and writes in 2 languages.
What is 'biliterate'?
This is the term for converting speech sounds to print.
This is the term for a letter or group of letters that form a new word with a different meaning when added to the beginning or the end of a word.
What is 'affixes'?
These are basic words (ex. table, boy, happy).
This is conveying information through facial expressions, gestures, and body language.
What is 'nonverbal communication'?
This is the term for multilingual students who qualify for ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) services.
What is 'English Learner'?
This is the study of speech sounds (phonemes) in a language and the rules for using and combining phonemes.
What is 'phonology'?
This is the term for an affix at the beginning of a word.
What is a 'prefix'?
These are high utility words that occur across subjects and domains (ex. concern, complex, reasonable).
What is 'Tier 2 Vocabulary'?
This is the ability to understand information communicated verbally and nonverbally.
What is 'receptive language'?
This is the term for speaking only 1 language.
What is 'monolingual'?
This is any letter or letter combination that represents a phoneme- may be 1-4 letters.
What is a 'grapheme'?
This is the term for an affix at the end of a word.
What is a 'suffix'?
These are words that subject specific, technical words (ex. phonology, syntax, semantics).
What is Tier 3 vocabulary?
This is the term for conveying information through spoken words.
What is 'verbal communication'?
This is the term for speaking 2 or more languages.
What is 'multlingual'?
The term for the smallest unit of sound in a language.
What is a 'phoneme'?
This is the system that governs how words are organized in phrases and sentences.
What is 'syntax'?
This is the term for the component of language involving the social aspects of spoken and written language- it includes social interaction, social cognition, language processing, and pragmatics.
What is 'social communication'?