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FTCE Prekindergarten/Primary PK-3 Questions & Answers 1.emergent literature- Marie Clay (1966) ANS -gradual dev of literacy behavior or stage in which child begins to learn about print -birth to age 5 -aka reading readiness 2.common difficulties in emergent literature (4) ANS -phonics application -whole language understanding -alphabetical construction in word dev -literacy skills *students w/o these skills exhibit risk factors in literary dev 3.factors that cause difficulties in emergent literature include (3) ANS -child doesn't have the requisite phonemic awareness skills to begin reading -difficulty w phonological memory -experience problems with lexical access (sound/meaning connections of lang) and lack the ability to rapidly name colors, pictures and objects 4.students don't connect what they learn in language to other subjects ANS com- mon difficulty in emergent literature is...
5.indirect instruction ANS involving the student in inquiry problem- solving and discov- erring 1 / 4
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6.interactive instruction ANS students in discussion which may or may not be teacher directed 7.phonemes ANS speech sounds 8.graphemes ANS written symbols for speech sounds (letters) 9.developmentally appropriate (2 dimensions) ANS 1. individual appropriateness
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10.neurological impress method (NIM) ANS teacher and student hold book and read together 11.7 essential words ANS 1. exit 2.danger 3.high voltage 4.stop 5.beware 6.keep out 7.no trespassing 2 / 4
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12.Dolch word list aka ??ANS aka popper words freq used vocabulary by grade 13.how many speech sounds are there?
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14.phonics ANS association b/t grapheme (letters) and phoneme (sounds) -'eyes open' 15.advantages of phonics ANS -gives children tools for decoding how to read and pronounce words -good for auditory learners -often can transfer their skills to spelling 16.disadvantages of phonics ANS -not good for visual learners -rules do not hold true every time 17.analytic phonics ANS with actual materials 18.synthetic phonics ANS away from books ex worksheets 3 / 4
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19.structural analysis ANS breaking a word into it's parts/ syllables 20.syntactic cues ANS -increase comprehension -the way words function in a phrase, sentence or passage ex. grammatical hints; the order of words; word endings 21.semantic cues ANS -aka meaning cues 'hints' within the sentence/from entire passage or text that help student determine the meaning 22.scaffold (plus 5 types) ANS teacher support involving demonstrating, guiding and teaching -the amt of support depends on indiv child needs 1.modeled 2.shared 3.interactive 4.guided 5.independent 23.Martha Combs 3 stages of development ANS 1. emergent reading - transition from speaking to writing & reading 2.developing reading - middle 1st grade to late 2nd grade; more independent in reading 3.transitional reading- instructional reading level of 2nd grade and beyond
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