SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Alphabetic Principle, Phonological Awareness, Language Disorder
7 Dec 2016
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People with a language disorder are predisposed to having issues with literacy. 6 countries ahead of us in terms of literacy. Children begins to gain awareness of reading and writing in a basic way. Play with sounds, develop interest in reading/writing. Oral language: a person"s expressive and receptive language ability. Phonological awareness: child"s understanding of the sound units of oral language. Print awareness: person"s understanding of the form and function of written language (develops on a continuum) Alphabet knowledge: knowledge of the letters that make up the alphabet. Alphabetic principle: the concept that speech and print correspond to each other in a predictable fashion: decoding: the application of the alphabetic principle to the written word. Reading comprehension: drawing meaning from the text an constructing meaning based on prior knowledge and experience. Reinforcement of words, and mastery of high frequency words (everyday words: reading to learn. Not reading just for themselves or pleasure: reading from multiple viewpoints.
