Theories and Theorists
This person proposed 7 stages or functions of a child's speech.
Who was Halliday?
A form of assessment that can reveal rich information through writing down episodes of language and other learning experiences.
What are anecdotal records/notes?
Sounds made by individual letters and combinations of letters that make a sound.
What are phonemes?
This is a kind of instruction where the teacher pulls students to reinforce and provide practice with skills/concepts.
What are small groups?
All letters except for A, E, I, O, U.
What are consonants?
A learning theory in which adults provide a model for children and they learn through imitation encouraged by positive reinforcement.
What is Behaviorist Approach?
A standardized language assessment that is leading wide-range measure of receptive vocabulary for standard English and a screening test of verbal ability.
What is the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test? (PPVT)
The grammatical rules of how words work together in phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is Syntax?
A method for helping a child develop a skill or concept based upon breaking down the information into chunks or more manageable steps. This allows learners to gradually build their understanding and skills while receiving feedback to help them to the next level.
What is scaffolding?
This is a skill of dividing words into parts based on their sound components.
What is segmenting?
This theorist is best known for his work on operant conditioning, which is a form of learning that focuses on the consequences of behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is an early childhood environmental assessment for classrooms.
What is ECERS - Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale?
This is the easiest phonemic awareness task.
What is Rhyming?
A way of building language and model writing in the morning, using chart paper.
What is a morning message?
The initial phonological unit put together with a vowel and final consonant that, when put together make words.
What is onset and rime?
This is a theory that suggests that language development is innate to humans and that the environment has nothing to do with its acquisition.
What is the Nativist Theory?
These are the two most common categories of standard assessment.
This deals with the meaning of words that language communicates through content words and function words.
What is semantics?
This is typically done during a read aloud to help students comprehend the story. Often times, teachers will begin with: "I wonder..."
What are Think Aloud Questions?
Using clues from surrounding text is an important way of figuring out word meanings.
What are context clues?
This person developed the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Lev. Vygotsky?
Marie Clay created this for observing and recording children's oral reading and for planning instruction.
This part of language involves listening and understanding what is said.
What is receptive language?
This is when a teacher creates a diagram to help children see how words relate to one another.
What are semantic maps?
This is a way of segmenting words or working on phonological awareness.
What is syllabication?