Preschool Aged
Literacy
Language Diversity
Langauge Sample Analysis
School Aged Language
100

The age at which most children should accurately produce all speech sounds in most contexts

What is 5? 

100

Word recognition and language comprehension 

What are the two strands of Scarborough's reading rope? 

100

This sociolect is known to delete the suffix /s/ or third person singular verb marker

What is AAVE? 
100

TNW

What is total number of words? 
100
What does a child need to be a proficient conversational partner?
turn taking topic maintenance topic shift presupposition (TOM) - perspective taking grice's rules comprehension monitoring
200

An evidence based measure used to find the more functional use of language 

What is language sample analysis or LSA? 
200

The knowledge that a beginning reader uses for context 

What is background knowledge? 

200
Alternating between two languages dependent upon the setting

What is code switching? 

200

Big Bird counts as "1" of these

What are morphemes? 

200

At around this age children begin to use more sophisticated strategies in conversation, such as providing additional background information and defining terms to repair breakdowns when they occur. This can also be around the time that children are reading to learn.

What is 9? 

300

The language domain in which boys and girls differ most in the preschool years

What are differences in language use? 
300

Oral language is the precursor to this type of language that is used to share knowledge on paper

What is written language? 

300
acquiring two or more languages from birth

What is simultaneous bilingualism? 

300

The word running has two of these "units" of meaning

What are morphemes?

300

A School aged child's ability to understand abstract language like figurative language

What is Theory of Mind? 

400

Environments that include many examples of literacy "tools" (grocery lists, people reading, books etc..)

What are high print environments?

400

An important piece of literacy development that involves the action of the caregiver

What is caregiver responsiveness?

400

a simplified type of language that develops when speakers who do not share a common language come into prolonged contact.

What is pidgin?

400

These verbal expressions are transcribed but not counted in the LSA

What are unintelligible words/utterances?

400

Use a life experience to help them understand the meaning of a word while reading a story

What is a pragmatic inference? 

500

The more "abstract" language type that can predict a child's ability to succeed academically

What is decontextualized language?

500

Pre-reading, initial reading & decoding, confirmation and reading to learn 

What are Chall's reading stages? 

500

a developmental process that occurs in second language acquisition that describes a learner's use of language routines or phrases that exist as a unit rather than as individual pieces.

What is formulaic language? 

500

The stages that provide a framework within which to understand and predict the path that normal expressive language development in English

What are Brown's Stages of morphological and syntactical development? 
500

This language assessment has been found to be a "good" measure of fairness to diverse speakers and is another word for "you" 

What is the CELF?

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