Identify this linguistic feature
What is phonological awareness?
is the foundation to help with reading. It helps one identify the sounds of spoken language in words. Examples can include: counting the syllables in a word, sound repetition, aware of each individual sound in a word and identifying words that rhyme.
What does this acronym stand for? NAAL
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy
This is a exam which can be tested for both adults and children
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test second edition
What is a morpheme?
Morphemes! They can be classified as free morphemes, which can stand alone as words, or bound morphemes, which must be combined with another morpheme to form a complete word. Bound morphemes typically appear as affixes in the English language. What is the smallest unit of language that has meaning within a word that happens to be a morpheme.
This is a skill that is needed when writing words correctly
SPELLING!!!
What is phonemic awareness?
Having this is when one has the ability or power to manipulate the sounds heard when reading a word and being able to understand that spoken words as well as syllables can make up speech sounds.
This program has been featured in Europe and especially Germany. THE acronym is PIAAC.
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
What is an affix?
An affix has a base morpheme and a bound morpheme. Some affixes change category of a word. For example: The word sing is a verb. If we add -er to the ending of the word it will turn into a noun : singer.
an affix is a group of letters that can be added to the beginning or ending of a word to change/distinguish a different meaning of the word.
What is receptive and expressive vocabulary?
expressive vocabulary involves talking!
What is phonics?
involves reading and writing in order to teach the relation of sounds and letters. Blending the sounds of letters together to help decode unfamiliar words. Being able to manipulate the sounds heard when reading a word, understanding that spoken words as well as syllables can make up speech sounds.
This acronym stands for ALSA
Adult Literacy Supplemental Assessment
What is a bound morpheme ?
can not function alone as a word. Needs to be connected to other words such as a prefix or a sufix. a prefix example can be "un," UN" cannot be a word alone. We need to attach it to make another word or connect it to a word thats already used by itself such as "like----- which becomes "unlike," or add an "S" at the end of a word which can become plural such as cats or bikes. even "ing" ----- like biking, swiming, ect.
What is a context clue?
We can find context clues to a word we don't know or don't understand in many different ways such as: rewording, synoyms, antonyms, as well as the sense of a passage.
THis acronym stands for SAAL
The state assessment of Adult Literacy
What is a free morpheme?
These words can stand alone as a word itself ... such as cat or dog.
What does NART stand for?
The National Adult Reading Test