Competency
The ability to read and write
What is literacy
a term used to explain a child’s knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write
print that can be found in many public environments, such as roads (street signs, billboards, directions, bus and train destination signs) and shopping areas (shop and product names, public service signs, cafés and restaurants)
What is environmental print
these are devices used to influence the opinion, emotions, and attitudes of your students.
What is propaganda devices
predicting, visualizing, and connecting
What is aesthetic listening strategies
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
What is prosody
two or three consonants that appear next to each other and the individual sounds are blended together
What is consonant blending
a basic speech sound
What is a consonant
identifying the differences in different sounds
What is discriminative listening
a guess about the future
What is prediction
the rise and fall of the voice in speaking
What is intonation
awareness and interest in words and their meanings
What is word consciousness
the initial phonological unit of any word
Listening to evaluate messages
What is critical listening
Listening to understand messages
What is efferent listening
the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used
What is pragmatics
the conventional spelling system of a language.
What is orthography
is one of the two classes of speech sound including a, e, i, o, and u
What is a Vowel
Listening for pleasure or enjoyment
What is aesthetic listening
this is a question where the text does not include the answer but it gives you hints and clues to use your own knowledge to figure out the answer
What is inferential questions
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
What is syntax
a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another
What is diphthong
the understanding that letters represent sounds which form words; it is the knowledge of predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds
What is alphabetical principle
are pieces of literature that you—both teacher and student—can return to and reread for many different purposes
What is mentor text