Elementary Education Praxis 5002 LA Complete
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Question: The foundations of literacy are 4
Ans: 1. print concept
2. phonological awareness
3. phonics and word recognition
4. Fluency and comprehension
Question: Strategies to teach print concept
Ans: Alphabetic principle, direct instruction
Question: Strategies to teach phonological awareness
Ans: direct instruction, scaffolding
oral language games that involve rhymes and saying nursery rhymes
Question: Phonemic Awareness vs. Phonological Awareness
Ans: *Phonemic Awareness* is the acknowledgment of sounds and words. Ex. a
child realizing that some words rhyme, or knowing that the sound of the letter
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b in the word bad can then be changed to with the sound d to make the word
dad. The key is that phonemic awareness can be taught with the students'
eyes closed- it's about *sounds* not ascribing written letters to sounds.
*Phonological Awareness* is the ability of the reader to recognize the sounds
of spoken language. This includes how these sounds can be blended,
segmented (broken up), and manipulated (switched around). It helps students
sound out words. Children acquires phonological awareness when they are
taught the sounds made by the letters and the sounds made by combinations
of letters, and the ability to recognize individual sounds in words.
Phonological awareness skills include: rhyming and syllabification, blending
sounds, identifying the beginning and ending sounds of words, segmenting
words into sounds, recognizing small words inside bigger words by removing
starting sounds (hear to ear)
Question: Phonological awareness
Ans: Phonological awareness happens during the pre-K years or even earlier
and involves connecting letters to sounds. Children begin to develop a sense of
correct and incorrect spellings of words in a transitional spelling phase that is
traditionally entered in elementary school.
Question: Onset and ryhme
Ans: are skills that might help students learn the sound of the first letter b in
the word bad can be changed with the sound d to make it dad
Question: Phonological awareness involves
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Ans: the recognition that spoken words are composed of a set of smaller
unites such as onsets and rimes, syllables and sounds
Question: Onset-Rime Blending
Ans: everything before the vowel RIME ( the vowel and everything after it)
e.g., the word "sleep" can be broken into into /sl/ and /eep/. words families
are built using rimes. the /eep/ word family would include jeep, keep, and
weep.
Question: Phonological Awareness and letter recognition contribute to
initial reading acquisition by helping children develop efficient word
recognition strategies (e.g, detecting pronunciations and storing
associations in memory)
Ans: Phonological Awareness (PA) and knowledge of print-speech relations
play an important role in facilitating reading acquisition. PA should be
integral component of early reading programs
Question: Marilyn Jager Adams outlines five basic types of phonemic
awareness tasks tutors can perform with children (Adams, 1990).
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Ans: 1. Rhyme and Alliteration
2. Oddity Tasks
3. Blending Words and Splitting Syllables
4. Orally Segmenting Words
5. Phonemic Manipulation Tasks
Question: story reading affects children's knowledge about strategies
for and attitudes toward reading.
Ans: children in different social and cultural groups have varying degrees of
access to story reading
Question: when people read, they use 4 sources of background info to
comprehend the meaning behaving the literal text
Ans: 1. Word knowledge ( Lexical& Orthographic knowledge)
2. Syntax and contextual info
3. Semantic Knowledge
4. Text organization
Question: Lexical Knowledge
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