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Oral Language & Vocabulary
Oral Language & Vocabulary
___ Language involves listening and understanding what is said, while ___ Language is what the children can use orally.
Receptive; Expressive
___ ___ is a subcategory of phonological awareness; ability to identify individual phonemes.
Phonemic Awareness
Should we teach using Letter of the Week?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The English letters can make at least ___ sounds.
44
What does LEA stand for?
Language Experience Approach
There are ____ tiers of vocabulary complexity.
3
The words big, bat, and bug are related because _____.
They have the same first sound (called alliteration).
The best first letters to teach are in children's ____.
names
What do we call single sounds represented by two or more letters?
Digraphs
___ ___ are vocabulary words that are immediately recognized by the reader.
Sight words
What is Vocabulary Meeting?
-Designated time for explicit instruction
-Teacher writes a message/note where words are used
-Children use various models/organizers to learn.
Medial vowels are in the _____ of the word.
Middle
What does letter formation refer to?
How to write each letter
What sound does a soft c make?
/s/
Why are high frequency words difficult to decode?
They often have irregular spelling patterns.
What are concept sorts?
Learners categorize words (via objects, pictures, written words, etc) to build relationships between concepts.
Phonics has ___ phonemes.
6
Why are some letters harder to learn than others?
-Some have more than one sound
-Some look very similar
-Some have names that don't match their sounds
What are rimes?
familiar word chunks
Describe Very Own Words.
-Method to develop sight words
-Selected by children
-From home and emotional experiences
What does PEER stand for in Dialogic Reading?
P - Prompt
E - Evaluate
E - Expand
R - Repeat
Phonological awareness tasks should move from _____ speech sounds to ______ speech sounds.
large; small
What kinds of alphabet books should we avoid when first teaching the letters?
Alphabet books with digraphs/blends that don't make the dominant letter sound.
What grapheme says ___.
/l/ L
What does LEA aim to help children do?
Help them convert oral language to written language (and therefore read and write for meaning).