Language & Literacy
Give me a quick overview of the "Reading Wars"
phonics-based instruction vs. whole language instruction
3 factors in reading fluency?
Speed, Accuracy, and Prosody
"writing a recursive process." What does that mean?
Evolves and changes; you can go back to it
Bottom 2 tiers of the Language/Literacy Hierarchy
Receptive oral language (listening) & Expressive oral language (talking)
In what order should Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Phonological Awareness be taught?
1. Phonological awareness, 2. Phonemic awareness, 3. Phonics
Describe the oral-literate (writing) continuum
At one end is informal, spoken conversational discourse. At the other end is formal, written academic/ analytic discourse.
The Simple View of Reading Formula.
Decoding of text x Comprehension of Language = Reading to Gain Meaning
Highest phonemic awareness skills
Phoneme Manipulation
For individuals with writing problems, expository texts will have...
fewer cohesive ties,
overuse of "and,"
fewer adverbial clauses, and
more redundancy and abrupt termination.
A person who has difficulty with this component of language will have trouble understanding the meaning of words when reading AND using a variety of words when writing.
Semantics
For a 7th grader, "diversion" is what tier of vocabulary word?
Tier II
You have an individual who spells "chruk" for "truck." What block of spelling is impacted.
Orthographic
What was the theoretical change in reading
Reading is not a visually-based skill; it is a language-based skill.
2 reader factors that affect comprehension
Reader factors:
Decoding accuracy and speed, Language ability, Background knowledge, Knowledge of text structure/genre, Interest/Motivation/attention, Intelligence/cognitive abilities, Metacognitive abilities
A students writes "the knifes go into the drawer." Which block of spelling is effected.
Morphological