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MTTC CI (115)
Language Development
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Children with ____ ________ ___________ ____________ often experience difficulties in their literacy skills. | oral language acquisition difficulties |
| Emphasizing __________ ___________ is a strategy that familiarizes early learners with word meanings. | vocabulary development |
| Teachers can create _______ ________ ___________ by promoting literacy in their classrooms with word walls, reading circles, or other strategies that introduce language skills to students. | language learning environments |
| auditory memory | listening to, processing, and recalling information |
| phonemes | focus on the rules for combining sounds |
| semantics | focus on the smallest units of sounds (morphemes) and how they combine to make up words |
| syntax | focus on how morphemes combine to make sentences |
| ____ _________ ___________ can be nurtured by caregivers and teachers well before children enter educational environments. | oral language development |
| The way people express knowledge, ideas, and feelings | oral language |
| the ability to use vocabulary, sentences, gestures, and writing; allows people to express feelings, wants, and needs, thoughts and ideas, and individual point of view | expressive language |
| the understanding of language | receptive language |
| skills that people use before they learn to communicate with words | pre-language skills |
| this is the 1st stage of language development & acquisition; occurs during infant's 1st year of life; characterized by the development of gestures, making eye contact, and sounds (i.e. cooing, crying) | pre-linguistic stage |
| the one-word sentence stage; develops in infants 10-13 mths; young kids use one-word sentences to to communicate meaning | holophrase |
| the stage that's typically developed by the time a child is 18mths old; each 2-word sentence includes a verb and a modifier ("green grass") | two-word sentence stage |
| these sentences form by the time a child is 2-2 1/2 years old; children begin forming sentences with subjects & predicates ("tree is tall") | multiple-word sentence stage |
| children 2 1/2-3 years old typically begin using more _______ _________ __________; they begin to use conjunctions and prepositions ("bring me outside") | complex grammatical structures |
| Stage 1 of Literacy Development; children 6mths-6yrs demonstrate skills like pretend reading, recognizing letters of alphabet, retelling stories, and printing their names | Emergent Reader stage |
| Stage 2 of Literacy Development; children 6-7yrs old; begin to understand letter/sound relationships & written/spoken relationships; read texts including high-frequency words; children here develop orthographic conventions & semantic knowledge | Novice/Early Reader stage |
| Stage 3 of Literacy Development; 7-9yrs old; children develop decoding skills in order to read simple stories; demonstrate increased fluency in reading | Decoding Reader stage |
| Stage 4 of Literacy Development; 8-15yrs old; 4th-8th graders read to learn new ideas and info | Fluent, Comprehending/Transitional Reader stage |
| Stage 5 of Literacy Development; 16yrs-older read more complex info; read expository and narrative texts with multiple viewpoints | Expert/Fluent Reader stage |