Literacy

Question 1

Phonological awareness

Answer 1

ability to distinguish phonemes or the sounds in langauge

Question 2

Vocab

Answer 2

number of words you know

Question 3

Decoding

Answer 3

ability to identify words you have never seen

Question 4

Fluency

Answer 4

rapid, autonomic decoding of novel words

Question 5

Comprehension

Answer 5

ability to understand text

Question 6

Birth to 2 years

Answer 6

can say alphabet, write their name, say sounds back to you
emergent literacy

Question 7

emergent literacy

Answer 7

abilities that are precursors to reading and writing, such as good verbal ability, knowing letter names, phonological awareness and print concepts

Question 8

early childhood

Answer 8

writing begins to look like letters and is written left to right lines
-begin to write with real letters

Question 9

Middle childhood

Answer 9

literacy turns into conventional literay
-children become better spellers
- 4th gradeskilled at conventional spelling

Question 10

Adolescence

Answer 10

reading becomes autonomic ad rapid
-understand abstract vocab

Question 11

Girls have higher what than boys

Answer 11

literacy achievement

Question 12

Parents with more years of education have…

Answer 12

children with better reading ability

Question 13

White and asian students have higher reading scores than

Answer 13

black or latino