Linguistics Basics
The study of speech sounds.
What is Phonology?
Segmenting words into their individual phonemes, or sounds.
Writing used to express our opinions.
What is expressive writing?
The essential skill students need as they enter adult life.
An activity where small groups of students gather to discuss a piece of text that they have all read.
What is a Literature Circle?
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
Using appropriate pre-fixes and suffixes while writing an essay.
What is morphology?
Writing that is intended to explain something to its audience or educate its audience.
What is informative writing?
The simplest, most direct, most time-effective way for students to show what they know in any subject area.
What is writing?
Because literature circles allow students to help each other understand and analyze the text under study, they are optimal environments for this type of learning to take place.
What is cooperative learning?
The rules that govern the ways words can be combined to form sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
Including both the subject and the predicate when writing a sentence.
What is syntax?
Writing that is intended to convince its audience to support one side of a debatable topic.
What is persuasive writing?
Behavior and attitudes of teenagers that do this are generally better than those that do not.
What is write well?
Literature circles often allow student choice when selecting the text to be read. This allows for a greater feeling of student ______ in their learning.
What is ownership?
The meanings of words and combinations of words in a language.
What are semantics?
Filling out a vocabulary knowledge survey.
What is semantics?
Creative writing.
What is a literary work?
This type of writing can be used across the curriculum. It it quick, un-edited writing that is used to remember and organize information on a daily basis.
What is casual writing?
True or False: Due to their complexity, literature circles can only be utilized in grades 7-12 classrooms.
What is false. (Can be applied in any K-12 classroom and beyond)
The rules that govern the use of language in social situations.
What are pragmatics?
Understanding and utilizing the typical routine and rules of conversations and other social situations.
What are pragmatics?
True or False: Literary work can only be works of fiction.
In between casual writing and formal writing, this style is typically used when students are writing essay responses, reflections, and summaries.
What is semi-formal writing?
Because literature circles are fun, allow for student ownership of learning, and facilitate cooperative learning, they are excellent experiences for this group of students.
Who are struggling readers?