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Domain 2
Question | Answer |
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What is letter recognition? | The ability to identify uppercase and lowercase letters. |
What is letter naming? | The ability to say the name of a letter when it's pointed out. |
What is letter formation? | The ability to write uppercase and lowercase letters legibly. |
What is the alphabetic principle? | Sounds are represented by letters? |
What are the 4 tasks of concepts about print? | 1. The relationship between spoken and written English 2. Letter, word, and sentence recognition 3. Directionality 4. Book handling skills |
How can you teach concepts about print? | 1. Read alouds 2. Big books 3. Shared book experience 4. Language experience approach 5. Environmental print 6. Labels and captions 7. Mailboxes 8. Explicit teaching |
How can you teach letter recognition, naming, and formation? | 1. Multisensory methods 2. Associating names and objects with letters 3. Singing the alphabet 4. ABC books 5. Writing uppercase and lowercase letters |
Which letters are visually and similar? | m and n, b and d, q and p |
Which letters are auditorily similar? | p and d |
Which letters are both visually and auditorily similar? | b and d |
How can you help students distinguish similar letters? | Tracing letters with fingers |
How can you support advanced learners? | 1. Increasing the pace 2. Build and expand on knowledge |
How can you assess directionality? | 1. Ask student where the teacher should start reading 2. Student points to each word as teacher reads |
How can you assess word boundries? | Ask how many words are in a sentence |
How can you assess print and meaning connection? | Have a student write something, see if they write letters. |