PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Phonological Awareness, Metalinguistic Awareness, Pragmatics
2 Dec 2016
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Ability to think about language as a system. More direct instructions on how language is structured in school (grammar, spelling, vocab) Able to break words down into suffixes, prefixes, endings, etc. Actively aware of word order and, learn new words/nouns/verbs because of. Use words more precisely where they are in the sentence. Gradual increase, huge vocab explosion after child starts reading. Different words make different sounds, need the context to know what it means. Cognitively demanding, doing a lot of different things at once. Identify print on pages & understand symbolic function of print. Ability to reflect on and manipulate sound structure (e. g. , rhyming skills) Knows frequent letter-sound correspondences, recognizes familiar written words, decodes simple one syllable words, retells stories in sequence. Knows letter-sound for common double consonants, (th, ch, sh, etc. ) decodes regularly spelled one-syllable words, recognizes some irregularly spelled words, reads grade level texts with increasing accuracy on repeated readings.
