PSYC 2290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Metalinguistic Awareness, Impulsivity, Phonics
17 Dec 2013
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Ability to think through steps and reverse them. Ordering items along quantitative dimension such as length or weight. Mental representations of familiar large scale spaces like neighborhood/school. Young elementary students produce strategies but not consistently. Use strategies consistently but their performance doesn"t improve much. Mid elementary children use strategies consistently and performance improves. Creating relationship between multiple pieces of info that are not members of same category. Continuously monitoring progress toward a goal, checking outcomes, redirecting unsuccessful efforts. From beginning children exposed to text in complete form - stories, poem, letters, etc. Children can appreciate communicative function of written language. Children should first be taught rules for translating written symbols into sounds. Abilities that allow person to process + adapt to emotional info. Fear of being judged on basis of negative stereotype. Adult introduces teaching into testing situation to find out what the child can attain with social support. Consistent with vygotsky"s zone of proximal development.
