Language Ingredients
Brain Research
Oral Lang.,Vocabulary, & Comprehension
Phoneme Awareness
Phonics
100
the system of word meanings
What is semantics?
100
reading occurs on this side of the brain
What is left brain?
100
a classroom in which students are listening to new language in books and conversations and are talking to each other and to adults, are trying new words, are expanding thoughts and observations, and are making their needs known
What is the "Language- Rich" classroom?
100
a speech sound within a language system that can be combined with other speech sounds to make a new word
What is a phoneme?
100
the study of the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent
What is phonics?
200
Social rules about language use
What is pragmatics?
200
where our brain processes the sounds of speech, also known as the phonological processor
What is the front of the brain?
200
words that students may not be familiar with but will encounter often and that can be applied in discussions about a variety of experiences
What is high utility words?
200
the number of phonemes in the English language
What is 44?
200
a pre-planned scope and sequence moving from easy to more difficult, using cumulative review, and guided practice to independent practice
What is systematic, explicit instruction?
300
the speech-sound system
What is phonology?
300
where our brain processes writing also known as the orthographic processor
What is the back of the brain?
300
the use of oral language stimulation techniques such as student-oriented responses, interaction resposnes, language-modeling responses, and scaffolding strategies to teach vocabulary
What is implicit vocabulary instruction?
300
a student's awareness of speech and speech segments that are larger than a phoneme
What is phonological awareness?
300
a letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme
What is a grapheme?
400
the origin and history of a word
What is etymology?
400
the two systems that must "fire together to wire together" to get meaning
What is phonological and orthographic processor?
400
choosing specific words to teach and planning multiple exposures to words, use them in interactive discourse, and teach them so that learning one word leads to learning many words
What is explicit vocabulary instruction?
400
a student's understaning that letters correspond to speech sounds even if they don't know all the complexities of reading
What is the alphabetic principle?
400
A unit of spoken language organized around a single vowel sound that may or may not have consonants before or after the vowel
What is a syllable?
500
the system of meaningful parts from which words may be created
What is morphology?
500
the model that helps us understand what the brain must do to read words on a page
What is the four part processor?
500
said to be credited for having the biggest impact (.82 standard deviation) for increasing comprehension
What is summarizing?
500
the number of phonemes in the word quaint
What is 5?
500
two consonant letters that represent one sound; that sound is not represented by either letter singly
What is a consonant digraph?
M
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n
u