Oral Language Flashcards
Phonemic Awareness / Sound Awareness
the ability to hear, identify, and re-create individual sounds in spoken words
A student can hear that /b/ makes first sound in the word “blue”
Reading Comprehension
the ability to read a text and understand its meaning
Phoneme
the smallest individual sounds in a word
The word “bit” has three phonemes – b – i – t.
Morpheme
A group of sounds that makes sense when spoken or written and can’t be broken down into smaller parts. This includes the beginnings and ends of words.
Overgeneralization
when a language rule is used in a place where it shouldn’t be
Sentence Stems
Common sentence starters provided to students to use when generalizing, summarizing, or transitioning between ideas.
“According to the author…”
Syllable Awareness / Syllabication / Syllable Segmentation
the ability to hear individual parts/syllables of words
“Education” has four syllables “ed-u-ca-tion”
Oral Language Assessment
Listen to, study, and write down short bits of students’ spoken language to figure out what they need, what they’re good at, what interests them, and what they should do next to help them grow.
Phonetics
the sounds of human speech
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle
Using how the symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a language work together to read and write.
Informal Language
language appropriate for texts and emails to friends
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Uses personal stories and spoken language to help people learn to read and write. Materials are made by the students themselves.
Cognates
Words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
family-familia; computer-computadora, and bicycle-bicicleta
Tone
The attitude of the author in writing, and which might be comical, serious, frightening, joyful. Sometimes called diction.
Formal Language
language appropriate for essays and written responses to literature
