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Foundations of Language and Literacy
Oral Language Development: Matching & Multiple Choice
Family Literacy and Language Development
Organizing Early Literacy and Language Instruction
Facilitating Early Language Learning
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Removed from the everyday and tangible experience; listeners must build ideas from the words alone.
What is Decontextualized language?
100
The Behaviorist, Nativist, Social-interactionist and neurobiological are the 4 major views of this key point from chapter 2.
What is the major views on how children's oral language develops?
100
help children interpret what they see, initiate conversations, observe children's reactions and ask children to label or describe their feelings and what they think while taking advantage of opportunities to extend children's interests through related activities.
What are ways parents and caregivers can use television as a tool for learning?
100
Print that is connected to classroom activities and guides children through the use of labels, sign-up sheets, visual schedules, lists and directions.
What is functional print
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A pattern of classroom talk in which the teacher asks a question, a student answers, and the teacher either accepts or rejects that answer and then goes on to ask another question.
What is IRE Initiation, response, evaluation?
200
Researchers have concluded that literacy development begins long before children enter first grade based on these two primary examples.
What is recognition of environmental print and scribbling?
200
The meaning bearing units of oral language, including words and affixes
What is morphology?
200
A highly effective strategy for informing and involving parents about how to support their children's language and literacy through shareing explicit information about the children's development and class curriculum and to provide practical suggestions that may support and extend children's learning at home.
What are Parent Workshops?
200
This print gives clues about real-life functions and situations and exists in everyday life outside of school setting.
What is environmental print?
200
Teacher guides the children to apply word knowledge by using the word in a new context other than the one in which the word appeared.
What is contextualized/extend approaches to defining words?
300
The ability to focus on and manipulate the 41 smallest units of sound in spoken words.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
300
Gender differences, socioeconomics, cultural influences and medical concerns.
What are factors that contribute to variations in rate of language acquisition?
300
Research studies revealed that when a child and adult shared a joint visual gaze at a new object when it was labeled children were quickly able to correctly identify and locate the objects that were introduced and labeled using this highly specific vocabulary building approach.
What is Shared Visual Attention?
300
A well-defined space for 5-6 children with partitions, comfortable furnishings, open-faced and traditional shelves, related displays and props are among the physical characteristic of this well-defined space that attracts children and promotes book reading.
What is a library/literacy center for children?
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A dialect that deviates from a generally adapted form of standard English that is often influenced by social, cultural and generational differences and can serve as a source of discrimination as a child matures.
What is language variation?
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Combining the key components of emergent literacy and scientifically based reading research approaches results in meaningful center-based literacy activities which blends together a print-rich environment with direct instruction resulting in a blended approach to literacy instruction.
What is A Value-Added Approach?
400
Because language development is at a peak during the first three years of life, this malfunctioning or infection of the Eustachian tube can interfere with speech articulation and language learning.
What is Otitis Media?
400
Asking closed and open-ended questions, labeling objects and adding descriptive information about the story as you are reading-aloud with a child or group of children.
What is dialogic reading?
400
Typically located on a table for 4-6 children to gather around a media device with individual headphones and multiple copies of books to correlate to the audio material.
What is a Listening Center?
400
Visual reinforcement, slow, clear speech levels and enunciation, repetition in short simple sentences and controlled vocabulary and idioms are all strategies for this.
What are strategies for teaching ELL and helping children develop conversational and academic language skills?
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Observation, standardized tests and reflection are among the multiple forms effective teachers use for planning and determining outcomes.
What is assessment?
500
Phonology, morphology, Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
What are the 4 major components of language?
500
These researchers observed 44 families from different socioeconomic and ethic backgrounds one hour each month for 2 1/2 years. Their data revealed vast differences in the amount of language spoken to children and that there was a lasting effect on children's language accomplishments throughout life.
What is Betty Hart and Todd Risley
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Preparing materials suited to individual students, recognizing different learning styles, adapting the physical arrangements of the room to meet the needs of all children, establish a dependable daily routine, plan time for one-on-one instruction, consider reciprocal peer tutoring, establish routine communication with parents and foster respect for all and full inclusion in your environment and curriculum planning.
What are strategies for teaching children with special needs?
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Uninflected words that occur with high frequency in oral language and can be used to create many related words.
What are high-utility root words?