Language and Literacy Development Flashcards
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Phonemic awareness is BEST defined as the ability to:
Answer: Identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes — the smallest units of sound — in spoken words, independent of print.
The alphabetic principle is the understanding that:
Answer: Written letters and letter patterns correspond to the sounds of spoken language
The alphabetic principle is the foundational insight that the letters and letter patterns in written language represent the sounds of spoken language.
Emergent literacy refers to:
Answer: The reading and writing knowledge children develop before formal instruction
Emergent literacy encompasses the early literacy skills, knowledge, and attitudes children develop through informal experiences from birth, well before formal reading instruction begins.
Which strategy BEST supports vocabulary development in preschool children?
Answer: Providing rich conversations and repeated exposure to new words in meaningful context
Rich, interactive conversations with repeated exposure to new words in meaningful, real-world contexts is the most developmentally appropriate and effective approach to vocabulary building.
Environmental print refers to:
Answer: Familiar print encountered in everyday life, such as signs, logos, and labels
Environmental print is the familiar text children encounter in daily life — stop signs, cereal boxes, store logos — and is often among the first print children learn to recognize.
Phonological awareness includes which of the following skills?
Answer: Recognizing rhymes, counting syllables, and manipulating onset and rime
Phonological awareness is a broad auditory skill involving sensitivity to the sound structure of language, including rhyme, syllables, onset-rime, and ultimately individual phonemes.
Which practice BEST supports concepts of print in young children during shared reading?
Answer: Running a finger under words while reading aloud to the group
Pointing to words while reading aloud demonstrates directionality (left to right, top to bottom), word boundaries, and the relationship between spoken and written words in a meaningful context.