Oral and Written Discourse
This should be the main focus of student work, no matter the content area.
What is Writing?
Expressive, Informative, Persuasive, Literacy
What are the four purposes of writing?
Study of speech sound (i.e., phoneme) system of a language, including the rules for combining and using phonemes.
What is Phonology?
Needed to help brain read.
What is decoding?
This does not come naturally, like walking and talking, for most children.
What is Reading?
Improving this in children's development should be a major focus during preschool and kindergarten.
What is oral language?
Used for our opinions.
What is expressive writing?
Study of the rules that govern how morphemes, the minimal meaningful units of language, are used in a language.
What is Morphology?
The part of the brain that helps us see things.
What is visual cortex?
The ability to think about and reflect upon language.
What is Metalinguistic Awareness?
Tools to help teachers understand what students know about reading, speaking and listening.
What is oral language assessment?
Used to educate or explain something to the audience.
What is informative writing?
The meaning of words and combinations of words in a language.
What is Semantics?
This brain area allows us to hear and tell the difference between sounds in spoken language.
What is auditory cortex?
Is very effective at helping students learn and retain information shown by research.
What is note-taking?
Graphic cues, syntactics cues, and semantic cues.
Used to entertain reader rather than inform.
What is literacy writing?
The rules associated with the use of language in conversation and broader social situations.
What is Pragmatics?
Brain area that helps us connect sounds with letters and letters with sounds.
What is angular gyrus?
Visual representation of the process of decoding and language comprehension sub-skills combined during skillful reading.
What is Scarborough's rope?
(2 concepts) are essential to comprehension because each enables understanding of words and their interrelationships in and across individual sentences in text.
What is vocabulary and grammar?
Used to change the mind of the reader or to consider the writers view point on a particular debate.
What is persuasive writing?
The rules that pertain to the ways in which words can be combined to form sentences in a language.
What is Syntactics?
Part of the brain that helps us make speech sounds, form words and sentences, and understand the meaning of what we listen to and read.
What is inferior frontal gyrus?
Number of different speech sounds in the English Language.
What is 44?