Express Yourself
This refers to the ability to express oneself effectively using words, sentences, and other forms of communication.
What is Expressive Language.
These are individual speech sounds a person hears.
What are phonemes?
A collection of new words for children to stay mindful of are often related to themes and posted on this.
What are word walls?
This is the best format for asking questions to get children to engage in content beyond "yes and no" answers.
What are open-ended questions?
Every other letter in the alphabet that's not a consonant.
What are vowels?
In speech, this involves pitch, stress, and juncture.
What is Intonation?
These are the corresponding letter symbols to the letter sounds (phonemes)
Oversized books designed to allow children to see print as it is being read.
What are Big Books?
A type of instruction for English Learners that is most effective for those who are able to acquire a new language easily.
What is English Immersion.
These are vowel sounds where the R (that follows the vowel) changes the sound of the vowel.
What are r-controlled vowels?
This type of talk revolves around narrative literature in which children interpret and discuss what has been heard or read in relation to themselves.
What is aesthetic talk?
The study of connecting sounds and symbols.
What is Phonics?
This is a popular eBook website that offers thousands of ebooks and videos for children for free.
What is EPIC?
When teachers provide a modeled, shared, guided and independent structure of teaching.
What is the Gradual Response of Responsibility?
A reader's ability to hear a series of isolated speech sounds and then recognize and pronounce them as a complete word.
What is blending?
This type of talk is used to inform and persuade and is used in discussion of the themes being studied.
What is Efferent Talk?
The ability to identify and manipulate individual speech sounds as well as syllables and whole words.
What is Phonological Awareness?
When the brain begins to prune unnecessary synapes, they disintegrate and vanish.
What is neural shearing.
An educational strategy that provides temporary supports and guidance to learners as they develop new skills or knowledge.
What is scaffolding?
This type of vowel pair includes two vowels that have a single sound.
What are vowel digraphs?
What is Language Experience Approach?
This test can assess a child's auditory ability in blending, segmenting, and substituting and thus demonstrating phonemic awareness.
What is PAT (the phonological awareness test).
Coined by Lev Vygotsky, this period is when a child has been guided by an adult and no longer needs the help. The adult retreats and allows the child to work on his or her own.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
This program was written in US Law with the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA and states that school districts are no longer required to consider a discrepancy between a student's achievement and their intellectual ability.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
Pairs of consonants that make new sounds.
What are Consonant Blends?