Language Arts - Key Words

from notes 1 & 2

Awareness of sounds (phonemes)

How many sounds do you hear in dog [3]

Phonological Skills

Understanding the meanings of words and using them to communicate

Ex - Figurative language

Semantics

What is expressive language?

Communicate

Speaking, writing, or visually representing.

What is receptive language?

Understand/Comprehend

Reading, viewing, listening

Study of root words and parts

Talks Talker Talking

Morphology

The order of words and grammatical rules.

The cat chases the mouse

The mouse chases the cat

Syntax

Audience awareness, social norms

Pragmatics

“Will you crack the door” is an example of ____

Translating spoken → written words

Hearing “dog” and writing it down.

Encode

Translating written → spoken words

Seeing the word “dog” and breaking it into letters.

Decode

When you first see letters to form a word that is…

Decoding

When the outcome is broken letters

Encoding

The study of rules, letters, and symbols.

Orthography

What type of orthography is English?

Opaque because it’s spelling is not consistent with sounds.

Written symbols for 1 word

Logographic

Symbols for syllables (sounds, ie: clapping)

Syllabary

Written letters for phonemes (single sounds)

Alphabetic

In this view, self-regulation is needed to perform reading.

Active

This view is more advanced than Simple View.

Scarborough’s Rope

In Ehri’s Stage of Reading, what stage do children learn letters that correspond to sounds, and spelling is dominant with consonants (drk)

Early

Encoding is the result of broken

letters

Hear — what letters? :)

Decoding is the result of broken

sounds

See — what sound? :)