Reading: Foundational Skills
The study of the relationship between the spoken sounds in words and the printed letters that correspond to those sounds.
Phonics
Language Acquisition 1 or L1
Entering
How many writing styles do student's learn in Elementary School?
Four
How parts of speech work together in sentences and how words are grouped to make meaning (such as in phrases or clauses).
Grammar
Common rules for how language is used under certain conditions or within particular styles.
Usage
Words that are repeated most often in text, are taught in conjunction with phonics.
Sight Words
Language Acquisition 2 or L2
Beginning
This style of writing is used to explain an idea or concept or inform the reader about a topic.
Expository Writing
The most basic type of sentence (hint:it's simple)
Simple sentence
Language that is particular to a geographical location or consolidated social group.
Dialect
A type of phonological awareness that focuses on sounds in a language
Phonemic Awareness
Language Acquisition 3 or L3
Developing
This style of writing emphasizes the production of imagery using words and figurative language that appeals to the reader's five senses.
Descriptive Writing
Made up of two independent clauses (or simple sentences) joined by a coordinating conjunction such as for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
Compound Sentence
Language used in formal setting and academic writing.
Academic Language
An understanding of how sounds, syllables, words, and word parts can be orally manipulated to break apart words, make new words, and create rhymes.
Phonological Awareness
Language Acquisition 4 or L4
Expanding
This style of writing is used to convince or persuade a reader to subscribe to the author's opinion or point of view.
Persuasive Writing
Made up of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, which cannot stand alone as simple sentences.
Complex Sentence
Familiar and informal, the language used with friends, to convey humor, and to communicate in nonacademic contexts.
Conversational Language
Letter sound correspondence that occur most often in the English language
High frequency (letter-sound correspondence)
Language Acquisition 5 or L5
Bridging
This style of writing is used to tell a personal or fictional story that entertains the reader.
Narrative Writing
Has two or more independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions and one or more dependent clauses that begin with subordinating conjunctions.
Compound-complex sentence
Constructed to convey images and ideas separate from the actual meaning of the words used.
Figurative Language