Emergent Literacy
Recognizes letters and being able to write them.
Alphabet Knowledge
Concepts related to the nature of the English writing system.
Concepts about print
The teacher behaves like a skilled reader who describes her own thinking and perceptual processes as they are practiced.
Modeling
The process of reading texts aloud to students so that they may grasp written texts when by themselves.
Read-aloud
The ability to write letters which includes handwriting and easy and automatic spelling.
Transcribing Skills
Understanding written texts, even when someone else is reading to them, is another aspect of children’s emergent literacy.
Comprehension
An approach to working with individual children. The child is in the active role as a storyteller and not just a listener.
Dialogic Reading
Concept of what books, print, and written language are, as well as how they function.
Print Orientation
First consonant sound, or sounds.
Onset
The ability to arrange words in a grammatical strings and also to deploy grammatical morphemes such as plural markers and verb endings.
Syntax
Readers or listeners to organize information and make inferences about it based on text information and their own prior information by constructing a personal rendition of the text.
Retelling
The knowledge that is spoken language comes in units of words, and that those units are represented in print by clusters of letters with spaces on either side.
Concept of Word
The awareness of phonemes specifically.
Phonemic Awareness
Smallest speech sounds in language.
Phoneme
Reading amongst a teacher and their students consisting of three stages anticipation, building knowledge, and consolidation.
Shared Reading
When young children are given exposure to written language and encouragement to explore it, they learn many concepts and acquire abilities related to literacy.
Emergent Literacy
The inner capacity to forge connection between letters and sounds.
Invented Spelling
Basic purpose and mechanisms of reading.
Print Concepts
Words that rhyme
Rime
How the speech stream can be broken into smaller parts
Phonological Awareness
A predictor of one’s ability to successfully read or learn to read.
Vocabulary
The context in which the language is uttered and heard provides little support to the meaning. The words, and listener, must create understanding their own.
Decontextualized Language
Word reading ability and spelling ability.
Phonemic Segmentation
Strategies from the teacher offered to the students that are just as much as they need, with the goal that they should function as independently as possible as soon as possible.
Scaffolding
Interpreting a story through pictures instead of text.
Emergent Literacy