Quiz 5 - School Age Review

Older children are proficient at using both morphological information and context clues to determine word meaning

Grades 2-3, confident, reading that is efficient, well paced, and free of errors, automatic

School age children use complex syntax in writing, particularly persuasive writing.

Lexical ambiguity: Occurs for words and phrases that don't have multiple meanings like homophones, homographs, homonyms

Grades 4-8, gaining new information, usually from one viewpoint, learning facts, adult-like level

Proverbs = Statements expressing the conventional values, beliefs, and wisdom of a society

High school - Students learn to navigate increasingly difficult concepts through text, can consider multiple viewpoints

(K-1) decoding, direct instruction, read simple storie with patterns, still making mistakes.

A silent graphme doesn't represent any sound at all (e.g. "b" in debt)

Functional flexibility: Ability to use language for a variety of communicative purposes or functions

Use only the information the text provides to infer and aremore difficult.

Age 18+ read selectively to suit their purposes, analysis, synthesis, and prediction to construct meaning from texts.

šReading readiness must involve learning the relationship between graphemes and phonemes

_______ ambiguity occurs for words and phrases with multiple meanings

Accuracy, rate, expression and punctuation are all aspects of what skill?

Elementary aged children typically develop advanced grammatical structures that mark a “literate” language style.

Story grammar includes the components of a narrative and the rules that govern their organization

Around age 8-10 years, children gain more language input from text, meaning they are reading to learn.

The components of a narrative and the rules that govern the organization is called:

Conveys similarity between two ideas or objects by stating that they are the same

The ability to use language for a variety of communicative purposes or functions is called...

An example of a mental verb is:

Narratives that children can produce by 5-6 (may be more than one right answer!)

Only some books encourage speech and language development, it must be at the child's developmental level.

Expressions containing a literal and figurative meaning

____________is the ability to view language as an object of attention

An example of a linguistic verb is

A diphthong is a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable (e.g. time ="ai" )

Birth to the beginning of formal education; development of oral language, print awareness, phonological awareness

Highly decontextualized, rely on language itself to constructmeaning, talk to learn are at the literate end of discourse

A diagraph is two graphemes but one phoneme (e.g. "sh" in sheet)

Bring an individual’s personal world knowledge or background knowledge to the text

Make the comparison explicit by using the word like or as

A type of exaggeration for emphasis or effect

Contextual abstraction: Using context clues in spoken and written forms to determine meanings of unfamiliar words