The English language acquired the largest contribution of words from these two cultures
What are Greek and Latin?
100
Nearly 80% of English language learners in American schools speak this at home
What is Spanish?
100
This tool helps teachers identify patterns in student reading behaviors
What is a running record?
100
This mode (from Chapter 3) is first syllabic, where characters match up with syllables in spoken words, then alphabetic
What is phonetic writing?
200
He was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development in children
Who was Jean Piaget?
200
"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?
200
According to one article you read, children's literature had not been invented in time with adult literature for this reason
What was because children hadn't been invented yet?
200
A reading and writing intervention for students in the 1st grade
What is Reading Recovery?
200
Writing in which a graphic symbol bears a physical resemblance to the thing it represents.
What is iconic writing
300
He proposed that children come equipped with an innate mental structure -- the language acquisition device (LAD) -- which makes learning easier.
Who was Noam Chomsky?
300
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?
300
This type of dialect implies that speech patterns in a northern community may vary greatly from that in a southern community
Geographic
300
Teachers set up these areas in a classroom for students to acquire REAL practice with skill development
Learning Centers
300
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?
400
Sheldon believed he could train Penny using the theory of operant conditioning coined by this scientist
Who was B.F. Skinner?
400
This was discovered and used by Frenchman Jean Champollion used to unlock the secrets of the early writing known as hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Soil, howl, and toy are examples of this type of vowel spelling pattern
What are diphthongs?
400
Teachers must do this for young children in the early learning stages of writing
What is provide plenty of models and time to imitate?
400
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?
500
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?
500
The Englishman William Caxton did this to advance the history of print.
What was introduce the printing press to England?
500
In Old English, long and short vowels referred to this
What is the amount of time the vowels were pronounced?
500
After reading chapter four of our text, understanding this might make teaching spelling less daunting
What is the origin of spelling patterns?
500
The ancient Greek practice of writing from left to right then from right to left