Early Literacy
Theoretical Perspectives
Theories Language Acquisition
Brain and Literacy
Elements of Literacy
100
The knowledge that spoken words consist of a sequence of individual sounds
What is phonemic awareness?
100
Using books and stories as the context for learning about letters and sounds
What is the top-down approach?
100
Provides instruction in a carefully selected and useful set of letter-sound relationships and then organizes the introduction of these relationships into a logical instructional sequence.
What is mean by "systematic" and "explicit" instruction?
100
The left hemisphere
What is the hemisphere of the brain that processes most of language and reading?
100
Students reread words with known phonic patterns so that they can recognize them instantly without having to sound them out laboriously.
What is reading fluency?
200
Understanding that spoken words are decomposed into phonemes, and that the letters in written words represent the phonemes in spoken words when spoken words are represented in text.
What is the alphabetic principle?
200
The teacher points to the written word "matador" and asks how many syllables will be in that word.
What is phonics/phonological awareness?
200
The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds and phonemes in spoken words does not require light.
What can phonemic awareness be done in the dark?
200
I processes words, letters, and features of letters?
What is the occipital cortex role in reading process?
200
This is the ability to identify words rapidly.
What is automaticity?
300
The teacher says /f/ /l/ /E/ and asks the students to blend the sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
The National Reading Panel purports which of these components as being necessary for a comprehensive reading program?
What is phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency?
300
One is an understanding about spoken language while the other is knowing the relation between specific, printed letters and specific, spoken sounds. The first are tasks that demand that children attend to spoken language, not tasks that simply ask students to name letter or tell which letters make which sounds.
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?
300
The Wernicke area
What is the part of the brain which if damaged would effect the ability to speak in coherent sentences, understand speech, and possibly effect your ability to not know if what your saying makes sense?Y
300
The first are the smallest units of meaning, it cannot be "split" further into smaller parts, while the second has no intrinsic meaning.
What is the difference between a morpheme and a syllable?
400
States that written symbols represent spoken sounds.
What is the alphabetic principle?
400
The teacher teaches the letters of the alphabet, letters and letter sounds before teaching words and their parts, sounds, followed by sentences, paragraphs, the essays.
What is the bottom down approach?
400
Showing child picture cooks and making up relevant stories to go along with the pictures and speaking and holding conversations often
What is a way a mother who cannot read can still help her child improve in reading?
400
The Brocos Area
What is the are of the brain that if damaged effects the ability to combine words into different words and speak in clear sentences?
400
If children labor to decode words then they do not have attention or mental resources left over to dedicate to comprehension and enjoyment which means they are not really reading, only word-calling.
What is the role of fluency in comprehension?
500
This sociocultural factor is not extremely important in literacy learning.
What is family traditions?
500
The teacher helps a child pronounce the word dolphin by breaking it down into syllables dol-phin
What is Phonics?
500
These concepts include knowing how to hold a book the right way, differentiating between print and pictures, turning pages left to right, being able to tell the front of the book from the back, read lines of text from left to right and then to go back to the beginning of the next line down, pages are read top to bottom starting at the top left, telling words from letters and punctuation marks in texts.
What is concepts about print?
500
It processes the meaning of text, words, sentence's and helps decode the big picture and relate what you are reading to what you know
What is the frontal lobes role in processing reading?
500
Before reading the students browse the book to predict the main content of the story and to ask questions about what they will learn.
What is comprehension?
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