Language Arts and Early Literacy Flashcards

Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to:

Answer: Hear and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words

Phonemic awareness is the oral/auditory skill of identifying and manipulating phonemes—the smallest units of sound—in spoken language.

Which activity best builds phonological awareness in PreK students?

Answer: Clapping syllables in their names

Clapping syllables is a phonological awareness activity that helps children perceive and segment spoken language into units.

Environmental print refers to:

Answer: Words found in the everyday environment such as signs and logos

Environmental print—stop signs, cereal boxes, store logos—is often a child's first encounter with meaningful print in context.

The alphabetic principle is the understanding that:

Answer: Letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language

The alphabetic principle is the foundational insight that written letters systematically correspond to spoken phonemes.

Shared reading in a PreK classroom is most effective when the teacher:

Answer: Reads aloud while tracking print and inviting discussion

Shared reading with print tracking models fluent reading and builds concepts of print, comprehension, and vocabulary simultaneously.

Concepts of print include all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer: Identifying the author's main argument

Identifying an author's main argument is a higher-order comprehension skill, not a concept of print.