SPA3004 Exam 2(Final Exam)
Emergent literacy - What is it? - correct answer--Early knowledge and skills that will later be
relevant for reading and writing.
-Built upon oral language and metalinguistic abilities.
There are 3 main emergent literacy skills that develop during preschool years: - correct
answer-1. Alphabet Knowledge
2. Print Awareness
3. Phonological Awareness
Alphabet Knowledge - correct answer-• Beginning to recognize/identify letters.
• Most often the letters in their name and in the environment.
• Emergent Literacy.
Print Awareness - correct answer-Recognizing that:
• Print exists.
• It serves a purpose.
• It follows conventions.
Phonological Awareness - correct answer-Relates to having a sensitivity to the sound
system of language.
A metalinguistic ability. Involves having metalinguistic skills.
Metalinguistic Ability is: - correct answer-The ability to view language as an object of
attention. Can also be defined as a
conscious awareness of language. This awareness allows a person to think about, talk
about, and
essentially dissect language to understand it on a deeper level.
Shallow awareness can identify: - correct answer-• Word level: Count words.
• Syllable level: Count Syllables.
• Onset-rime level: Separate sounds from beginning sound (i.e.
l-ove).
Deep awareness can identify: - correct answer-• Phoneme level: Segmenting words in
phonemes c-a-t; counting phonemes in a word; blending phonemes to make a word;
manipulating phonological sounds in a word.
-Phoneme Level: Phonemic awareness.
Decontextualized language - What is it? Why is it important? What influences its
development during this period? - correct answer-Type of language that is used to refer to
people, places, or objects that are not immediately present. It is important because it's
fundamental to academic success. Learning in school is often focused on concepts and
events that are abstract or that occur beyond the classroom.
, Different types of morphemes? - correct answer-INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
Inflectional Morphemes do what? - correct answer-Changes the part of speech, same word
ie. stop vs stopped.
Derivational Morphemes do what? - correct answer-Changes the word ie. cat vs catty.
Fast Mapping is: - correct answer-The ability to learn words after only a few exposures or
even a single exposure.
Slow Mapping is: - correct answer-Learning a word more deeply through multiple encounters
in different contexts.
Overextension is: - correct answer-Using a word in an overly general way.
Underextension is: - correct answer-Using a word for only a subset of possible reference (
most common).
What is a Narrative? - correct answer-A child's spoken or written description of a real or
fictional event from the past , the present , or the future.
To produce a narrative the child: - correct answer-Introduces a topic and organizes the
information pertaining to the topic in such a way that the listener can assume a relatively
passive.
Personal Narrative: - correct answer-An individual shares a factual event.
Fictional Narrative: - correct answer-An individual shares an imaginary event.
Both personal and fictional narratives , put together a: - correct answer-Sequence of events
in casual or temporal manner.
Causal Sequence is: - correct answer-The unfolding of a chain of events or provides a
reason or rationale for a series of events.
Temporal Sequence: - correct answer-Unfolds with time.
What is the 'shift in language input' during this stage of development in School-Aged
Children? - correct answer-Written language becomes an additional source of input and
output. The language used in books is often more complex and contains more sophisticated
information and it is quite different than everyday communication. This shift leads to learning
of more advanced language for children who read.
As children become more confident and fluent readers, and as they become unglued from
the print in Stage 2, they: - correct answer-Gradually begin to transition from learning to read
to reading to learn.
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