Early Childhood Education 001 GACE
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Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔Acknowledgement of sounds and words.
**This can be done for hearing/speaking**
The ability to break down words and hear spearate and/ or different sounds and to
distinguish among the sounds one hears.
Phonics - ✔✔The connection between the sounds and letters on a page.
*Must be done while reading*
Comprehension - ✔✔Reader ascribes meaning to text
Fluency - ✔✔The ability to read in much the same manner as speaking.
Vocabulary - ✔✔demonstrates the strong ties between oral and written language.
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, Phonological Awareness - ✔✔The ability to recognize the sound of spoken words
The Logographic Phase - ✔✔Children recognize whole words that have significance for
them-such as their name, stores they go to or products they use.
The Analytic Phase - ✔✔Children make associations between the spelling patterns in
the words they know and the new words they encounter.
The Orthographic Phase - ✔✔Children recognize words almost automatically
The Alphabetic Principle aka Graphophonemic Awareness - ✔✔understanding that
written words are composed of patterns or letters that represent the sound of spoken
words.
Two Parts of the Alphabetic Principle: - ✔✔--Words are made of letters and each letter
has a specific sound
--Sounds and letters lead to phonological reading. This consists of regular and irregular
words as well as doing advanced analysis of words.
Word Analysis - ✔✔The process readers use to figure out unfamiliar words based on
written patterns.
Decode - ✔✔To change communication signals into messages
Encoding - ✔✔Changing messages into symbols
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔Acknowledgement of sounds and words.
**This can be done for hearing/speaking**
The ability to break down words and hear spearate and/ or different sounds and to
distinguish among the sounds one hears.
Phonics - ✔✔The connection between the sounds and letters on a page.
*Must be done while reading*
Comprehension - ✔✔Reader ascribes meaning to text
Fluency - ✔✔The ability to read in much the same manner as speaking.
Vocabulary - ✔✔demonstrates the strong ties between oral and written language.
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, Phonological Awareness - ✔✔The ability to recognize the sound of spoken words
The Logographic Phase - ✔✔Children recognize whole words that have significance for
them-such as their name, stores they go to or products they use.
The Analytic Phase - ✔✔Children make associations between the spelling patterns in
the words they know and the new words they encounter.
The Orthographic Phase - ✔✔Children recognize words almost automatically
The Alphabetic Principle aka Graphophonemic Awareness - ✔✔understanding that
written words are composed of patterns or letters that represent the sound of spoken
words.
Two Parts of the Alphabetic Principle: - ✔✔--Words are made of letters and each letter
has a specific sound
--Sounds and letters lead to phonological reading. This consists of regular and irregular
words as well as doing advanced analysis of words.
Word Analysis - ✔✔The process readers use to figure out unfamiliar words based on
written patterns.
Decode - ✔✔To change communication signals into messages
Encoding - ✔✔Changing messages into symbols
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