COMD 5200 Test 4 emergent literacy – Flashcards
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What is emergent literacy?
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the natural reading and writing behaviors exhibited by young children before formal reading and writing instruction begins
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What are the key areas of emergent literacy?
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phonological awareness, print concepts, alphabet knowledge, literate language
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What are the principles of emergent literacy?
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reading and writing begin early in life, literacy develops in real life settings to accomplish real goals, reading and writing develop concurrently and interrelatedly, literacy develops from real life situations in which reading and writing are used to get things done (Function precedes form), kids learn literacy through active engagement, being read to play a special role in the literacy development of young children, learning to read and write is a developmental process. Children pass through the stages in a variety of ways and at different ages
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What do children need to become literate?
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a print-rich environment, oral language development, first hand experience with topics of interest, symbolic representation experiences, pressure free experimentation with writing, pressure free exploration of reading
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What constitutes a print rich environment?
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adults who read and write, contextualized print, being read to, dictation experiences, exposure to quality literature
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what are examples of symbolic representation experiences?
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dramatic play, drawing and painting, music and dance
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what are examples of pressure free experimentation with writing?
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drawing, scribbling, nonphonetic writing, invented spelling
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What are examples of pressure free exploration of reading?
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reading from memory, reading with context clues, matching print to oral language
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What things does a child need to develop in order to participate in literacy events?
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The nature of print, the functions of print, forms and conventions of print, structure of books and stories, segments
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What is the progress of development of writing?
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drawing, scribbling for writing, using letters and letter like shapes, using prephonemic invented spelling, using letter name invented spelling, using transitional invented spelling, conventional spelling
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What are the advantages of shared book reading?
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reflect contemporary perspectives, practical, adaptable, culturally valued
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What do adult-child shared storybook reading interventions focus on?
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increasing children's participation in reading exchanges as well as encouraging children's implicit and explicit knowledge about oral and written language
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What is the role of adults as facilitators in children's learning?
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adult-mediated play involving literacy related artifacts, interactions with contextualized print in the environment, scaffolded exchanges with the oral and written language of storybooks
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children in literacy rich classrooms made significantly greater gains over the academic year in their attainment of print concepts. T or F
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T
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For use of literature in the classroom, it is just useful for the whole class. T or F
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F
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For use of literature in the classroom, what does it enhance?
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vocab and general language development
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For use of literature in the classroom, what does it expose children to?
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conventions of print
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For use of literature in the classroom, what does it prepare kids for?
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literacy experiences typical of school?
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For use of literature in the classroom, what does children learn to infer?
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meaning from extended decontextualized discourse
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For use of literature in the classroom, what develops concurrently?
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oral and written communication
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What is the problem with story listening activities of children?
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parents usually dominate the interaction while children forfeit many of their turns
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What do predictable, repetitive format books do for children?
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serve as scaffold and context for language Tx, facilitate variety of emergent literacy skills, enhances vocab, syntax and morphology
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What are the benefits of using story reading as an intervention tool?
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use books to stimulate recall and foster language production, event sequencing, basic story grammar, word boundaries, speech-sound relationships, sense of the purpose of books
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When you simplify language used by adults for instruction, what does it assist the child to do?
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attend and discriminate and store relevant story info, make appropriate responses, provide frequent eval feedback, clarification and reinterpretation, aid comprehension through repeated exposure to info, assist understanding of relationships expressed in story
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When sharing children's literature, all you need to do is read aloud. T or F
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F
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What should you do when you are sharing children's literature?
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interactive-reciprocal activity with child participation, sharing of reading, discussion of story's significance, pre-reading, reading and post reading activities, can be included within curricular themes that provide framework for narrative
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What are stratagies you can use for providing feedback and scaffolding?
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expansions, expatiations, extensions, comprehension questions, preparatory sets, cloze procedures, gestures, binary choices, relational terms, summarization questions, phonemic cues, constituent questions, expectant pause
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What do pre-reading activities do for the child?
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provide bridge between what students know and need to know to interpret story
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What is phonological awareness?
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awareness of the sound structure of spoken language at the level of the word, syllable, onset-rhyme and phoneme
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What is print concepts?
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knowledge of how print is organized. The relationships between written language units and the metalinguistic (sentence, write, etc) terminology that's used to describe print. also includes how books are organized, form and function of environmental prints, different features of various genres of print, and developmental writing skills
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What is alphabet knowledge?
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knowledge of the distinctive features and names of letters both upper and lower case
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what is literate language?
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use of specific syntax or semantic features that characterize written text. renders meanings in decontextualized discourse
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The developmental process of emergent literacy in children is not a linear path. T or F
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T
