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Emergent Literacy
Teaching emergent literacy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Phonological Awareness | Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize, manipulate, and play with the sounds of spoken language, forming a critical foundation for reading and spelling success. |
| Phoneme | the smallest unit of sound |
| The 5 pillars | phonemic awareness phonics vocabulary fluency comprehension |
| Figurative language | Figurative language is a type of descriptive language that uses words or expressions in non-literal ways to convey meaning, evoke emotion, or create vivid imagery. |
| Similes | Similes: Comparisons using "like" or "as" (e.g., "as brave as a lion"). |
| metaphors | Metaphors: Direct comparisons (e.g., "time is a thief"). |
| personification | Personification: Giving human traits to non-human things (e.g., "the wind whispered"). |
| Hyperbole: | Exaggeration for emphasis (e.g., "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"). |
| Idioms: | Expressions with meanings not deducible from the individual words (e.g., "kick the bucket") |
| How many letters in the alphabet | 26 |
| How many phonemes? | 44 |
| What are the vowels? | a,e,i,o,u |
| How many syllables in caterpillar? | 4 |
| How many phonemes in caterpillar? | 8 |
| predetermined- what is the prefix and what does the prefix mean in this word? | pre- before |
| predetermined - what is the suffix and what is its meaning? | ed- inflected ending -means past tense |
| What is the base or root word of predetermined? | determine |
| What are the two parts of a sentence? The fat cat quickly ran inside the house. | subject - the fat cat predicate- quickly ran inside the house |
| What is the verb? The fat cat quickly ran inside the house. | verb ran - present tense |
| What is the prepositional phrase? The fat cat quickly ran inside the house. | inside the house |
| what is the adverb? | quickly |
| What is the adjective? | fat |
| What does inventive spelling indicate? | The phonemes and graphemes that are mastered |