Four Major Purposes for Writing
used to educate or explain something to the audience • Essays • Research papers • Presentations
What is Informative Writing?
is about patterns of sounds, especially different patterns of sounds in different languages, or within each language, and with different patterns of sounds in different positions in words etc.
What is Phonology?
small groups of students gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth. The discussion is guided by students' response to what they have read.
What is literature circles?
The broad definition of phonology includes the organization or system of sounds within a language.
What is phonology?
listening vocabulary, speaking vocabulary, reading vocabulary, writing vocabulary
What is Semantics?
used to “express” our opinions • Email, Facebook, Twitter, blogs or other social networking sites
What is expressive writing?
the study of how words are formed. We can understand words by focusing on the smallest unit of functionality within language; the part that stands alone.
What is Morphology?
Refining structure
- Learning how to discuss
- Adding on components
- Deepening students' understanding of and engagement with literature
What are goals?
The set of structural rules that govern the combination of words and phrases into sentences—and how sentences are combined into paragraphs.
What is Grammar?
underlies the ability to manipulate speech sounds (i.e., phonemes) in spoken words. It has been found to contribute notably to reading and writing development.
What is Phonological awareness?
a more serious form of writing on a debatable topic • Essay • Research paper • Presentations
What is Persuasive Writing?
deals with human production of speech sounds.
What is Phonetics?
- Teacher gives booktalks
- Teacher forms groups
- Groups formed by student choice
What is forming groups?
Associated with vocabulary as the main component
What is oral language
understanding sentence structure elements when listening
What is Syntax?
the goal or aim of a piece of writing: to express oneself, to provide information, to persuade, or to create a literary work. There are four purposes writers use for writing.
What is Purpose?
concerns the correct structure of sentences in agreement with certain principles, processes and rules as laid down by grammarians.
What is Synax?
- Limited choice of response prompts given by the teacher
- Students read individually, in pairs, with taped book, with specialist/volunteer support
What is Reading and Preparing for Discussion?
Sometimes considered to be a subset of syntax or vocabulary (semantics), morphology is focused on the smallest units of meaning within a word and the rules about how those words are formed.
What is Morphology?
understanding of the social aspects of spoken language, including conversational exchanges
What is Pragmatics?
a form of creative writing as in fiction or nonfiction. • Novels • Plays • Poems
What is Literary Work?
essentially to do with meaning, although it is an extremely broad term. It can be used to examine changes in meaning over time.
What is Semantics?
- This is what works in my classroom
- What works now may not work next week, next year
- My students and I are constantly learning and changing how we do things
What are teacher beliefs?
The development of vocabulary focuses both on expressive vocabulary and receptive vocabulary. Expressive vocabulary represents the words a student actively uses when talking, writing, or communicating. Receptive vocabulary represents the words that a student understands—based on context and background experiences—but may not necessarily use in his or her own speaking or writing.
What is vocabulary?
an impairment in comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other communication symbol system.
What is language disorder?