Scientific Thinkers
This was the developer of Reading Recovery.
Who is Marie Clay?
The English language acquired the largest contribution of words from these two cultures.
What are Greek and Latin?
Children learn language (vocabulary and speech patterns) through these types of conversations with adults.
What rich and meaningful?
This tool helps teachers identify patterns in student reading behaviors over time.
What is a running record?
This mode (from Chapter 3) is first syllabic, where characters match up with syllables in spoken words, then alphabetic.
What is Phonetic Writing?
He was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development in children.
Who was Jean Piaget?
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas – how he got into my pajamas I’ll never know" is an example of this component of language.
What is semantics?
B.F. Skinner's learning principle in which an immediate reaction to a familiar stimuli causes a change behavior.
What is Operant (behavioral) conditioning?
A reading and writing intervention used to promote literacy skills and prevent long-term reading difficulties for students in the 1st grade.
What is Reading Recovery?
Writing in which a graphic symbol bears a physical resemblance to the thing it represents.
What is Iconic Writing
He proposed that children come equipped with an innate mental structure -- the language acquisition device (LAD) -- which makes learning easier.
Who was Noam Chomsky?
The early Phoenicians were first to develop a 22-character, semi-alphabetic writing system from hieroglyphics containing consonants, but none of these.
What are vowels?
This type of dialect implies that speech patterns in a northern community may vary greatly from that in a southern community.
What is a Geographic dialect?
Teachers set up these areas in a classroom for students to acquire REAL practice with skill development in small settings
What are Learning Centers
Knowing these is strongly related to a child's ability to remember the forms of written words and their ability to treat words as sequences of letters.
What are Letter Names?
Sheldon believed he could train Penny using the theory of operant conditioning coined by this scientist.
Who was B.F. Skinner?
This was discovered and used by Frenchman Jean Champollion to unlock the secrets of the early writing known as hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The area of the cortical speech center in the human brain (absent in primates) where sound and meaning is organized into rational patterns.
What is the Broca's Area?
Teachers must do this for young children in the early learning stages of writing.
What is provide plenty of models, scaffolding, and time to imitate?
This principle of writing from Chapter 3 states that there are a limited number of written signs and a limit to the number of ways to make them.
What is the Flexibility Principle?
In 1973, this man conducted extensive research on children's language and identified five stages of development based on the mean length of the their utterances (MLU).
Who was Roger Brown?
The Englishman William Caxton did this to advance the history of print.
What was introduce the printing press to England?
In Old English, long and short vowels referred to this.
What is the amount of time the vowels were pronounced?
After reading chapter four of our text, understanding this might make teaching spelling less daunting.
What is the origin of spelling patterns?
The method of communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
What is language?