Reading Praxis – 5302 Study Questions and Complete Solutions

Factors that affect literacy development medical environmental cultural linguistic social emotional Developmental continuum of oral language phases and indicators in a child's oral language development from pre-literacy to indepence Phonological Awareness the ability to recognize and manipulate the sound structure of words (rhyming, blending, segmenting, deletion...) Phonemic Awareness The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes (sounds), in oral language. Concepts about print the awareness of how books, print, and written language funtion Alphabetic Principal the understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language Decoding skills the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words printed-word recognition students can quickly and automatically translate the letters of spelling patterns of written words into speech sounds so that they can identify words and access their meanings 3 layers of spelling alphabet sound: sound out each letter pattern: recognizing what letter combos make different sounds meaning: meanings of words or word parts reading fluency reading accurately, smoothly, and with expression; recognizing words automatically