Emergent Literacy
What is emergent literacy?
Early reading and writing development.
What are five comprehension strategies that we teach students about?
A.) Predicting
B.) Making Connections
C.) Asking Questions
D.) Visualizing
E.) Inferring
What is phonological awareness?
The ability to hear and manipulate the sound structure of language.
What are three instructional methods that can be utilized when focusing on oral language development in an emergent literacy classroom?
A.) Play games
B.) Storytelling
C.) Dramatic Play
What are the three tiers of vocabulary?
A.) Basic Words
B.) Academic Words
C.) Subject/Content Words
What are three essential understandings of emergent literacy?
A.) Play based practices
B.) Kinesthetic learning
C.) Manipulatives
What is the potential impact of something like "book buddies" on a student's comprehension?
It allows practice that they are able to take home. It also increases parent involvement.
What are two of the skills and best ways to teach it?
A.) Rhyming- Rhyme recognition
B.) Syllabification- Syllable substitution
What should the focus of the interactive read aloud be?
Comprehension focused and comprehension strategy.
What is the significance to teaching tier 1 Vocabulary?
These are the words we need to help our ELL students.
What are the stages of reading development?
A.) Early Emergent
B.) Emergent
C.) Early Fluent
D.) Fluent
What are the challenges in assessing comprehension?
Students may have a different understanding of the book. Or teachers may have to wait for a student to process the book.
What is phonemic awareness?
It involves the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken words.
What is a think aloud/modeling?
When the teacher models their thinking and how to use the specific strategy.
What is the significance to teaching tier 2 words?
Helps students use high utility words.
How are the stages important in consideration of learning to read?
They build upon each other and it gives the teacher an idea of where each students is at and what they can do.
What is the significance of auditory comprehension?
Some students don't have to do the heavy learning like decoding, they can just listen. You can also use the same comprehension questions.
What are three phonemic awareness sub-skills?
A.) Sound Identification
B.) Phoneme blending
C.) Phoneme Segmentation
What are two specific ways you can elicit engagement from students during a read aloud?
A.) Text dependent questions
B.) Ask Questions
What is one strategy teachers could implement to teach/review vocabulary?
Word walls