Nystce Literacy Part One

Orthographic - Answer-When a student can recall a word based on visual qualities If a student is at a intermediate stage of literacy development. Which ability is most characteristic of this stage? - Answer-Reading with appropriate rate,accuracy, and expression. What are the four stages of literacy development? - Answer-1. Beginning Literacy 2. Early Intermediate 3. Intermediate Literacy 4. Early Advanced Literacy During the advanced stage of literacy development, students acquire new vocabulary primarily through? - Answer-Independent reading Given the typical continuum of instruction on semantic relationships, what types of words would be most appropriate to teach students? - Answer-Antonyms Semantic Relationships - Answer-Associations that exist between words Why is teaching antonyms first important? - Answer-Antonyms helps students identify relationships instead of similar spelling and can categorize them to build a better knowledge of semantic relationships. Adverb - Answer-is a word or a phrase that is modified with a comparative (i.e. -er) or superlative (i.e., -est) to the ending to convey time, place, or manner Verbs - Answer-Words that show action or a state of being. One of these is required in a sentence Adjectives - Answer-Tells us more about a noun. Describes the noun. Examples: green slow, five, stinky, tall, round Open syllable - Answer-ends in a vowel closed syllable - Answer-ends in a consonant Syntactic knowledge - Answer-knowledge of how words can be combined in meaningful sentences, phrases, or utterances. A teacher wants to determine an English Language Learner's readiness to analyze written language structures in English. The information that would best support the teacher's conclusion is the student's level of? - Answer-Syntactic Knowledge