Flashcards
Child Language Acquisition - Writing
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- 1The linguistic term for a letter or blend of letters that represents a sound.Grapheme
- 2The sound of a letter or a blend of letters within a wordPhoneme
- 3American psychologist who suggested a number of reading stages children go through.Jeanne Chall
- 4The approach that encourages children to identify familiar words in order to read them.Look-and-say approach.
- 5The approach that encourages readers to break down words into individual graphemes and sound them out.Phonic approach
- 6Identify one way in which a child's writing can be facilitated using existing knowledge.Use of familiar texts such as Goldilocks.
- 7The beginning of the text in the genre letter writing is called...Salutation
- 8The way in which a letter to someone is finishedComplimentary close.
- 9The way children are taught to hold a pencil...Tripod Grip
- 10The skills associated with precise movement such as using scissors, sewing and writing.Fine motor skills
- 11The process of writing left to right.Directionality
- 12The term for when children are producing shapes on paper but it is not yet coherent.Emergent writing
- 13The opposing ideas about how a child should be taught to writeCreative model vs Rule-based model.
- 14Rothery's four categories of writing include Observation Recount Report and .....Narrative
- 15What aspect of a narrative is often not present in children's narrative writing?Coda
- 16How are children encouraged to write in school situations?Scaffolding - prompts to writing.
- 17Why is it important to encourage writing outside the school environment?It means that the writing has a more real sense of purpose and audience. Because it is not marked/assessed in the same way child might be more creative - experimental.
- 18What additional features might we able to be able to comment on through the lexical choices a child makes?Their social background - more ambitious vocabulary might be an indication of social class - dialect words of regional identity.
- 19What is the correct term in linguistics for spelling?Orthography
- 20What are the advantages of using cursive (joined up) writing?It means that speed of writing is quicker as the pen is not lifted from the paper with the same frequency.
- 21What is the term for the popular midpoint that is half-way through cursive and printed handwriting?Casual cursive
- 22What is stage 3 in Gentry's stages of spelling acquisition?Phonetic stage - where spelling is often based on the sound of words.
- 23What is stage 4 in Gentry's spelling stages?Spelling combines phonetic approach and visual approach. Silent letters are starting to be acknowledged.
- 24What is a HOMONYM?A word that is spelt the same but pronounced differently.
Bow - as in bow and arrow.
Bow - as in a polite gesture. - 25What is a HOMOPHONE?Words that are pronounced the same but spelt differently.
Where and wear - 26What verb suffix (bound morpheme) shows the simple past tense?ED ending
- 27What are the six common errors in spelling?Phonetic spelling
Undergeneralisation
Overgeneralisation
Omission or Insertion
Substitution
Transposition - 28What are words with more than two syllables generally called?Polysyllabic - they are an indication of growing writing confidence.
- 29What is a simple sentence?One unit of thought - no clauses.
- 30What is a compound sentence?Where a number of thoughts are joined together - often with the conjunction /and/ - in early writing.
- 31What type of "mood" sentences do younger writers mostly use?Declarative.
- 32What is a fronted adverbial clause?A phrase like "In the kitchen" in the sentence "In the kitchen dad was busy making the Sunday lunch". This is a way to make writing more interesting but sometimes children use it in a way that leads to confusion or illogical meanings.
- 33What approach should not be taken to children's writing as it discourages them.The DEFICIT approach where you criticise all errors - often what looks like a mistake is an over-generalisation.
- 34What language level would a feature like politeness come under?Pragmatics
- 35What is the name for the type of writing proposed by Britton where children are writing in first person about their own lives?Expressive
- 36Why might it benefit a child to do writing outside the school environment?They have a much better sense that the writing has a real audience and purpose.
This might encourage writing and make it more enjoyable and meaningful. - 37What two factors might impact on the child's lexical choices (words used).Their socio-economic background and geographical background (ambitious vocabulary and dialect words).
- 38What is the correct term for joined up writing?Cursive script
- 39What is the term for the popular midpoint between printed and joined handwriting?Casual cursive
- 40What is Gentry's third stage in spelling acquisition?Phonetic (or full alphabetic writing) - where spelling is based on the sound of words.
- 41What is Gentry's fourth stage?Transitional stage - where a child is combining phonetic approaches and visual approaches. Silent letters might start to be understood and acknowledged.
- 42What language level would politeness come under?Pragmatics
- 43What is a homonym?Words that are spelt the same but are pronounced differently.
Bow - there is a bow in her hair.
Bow - He gave a polite bow. - 44What are the common errors in spelling?foenettic spelling
Undergeneralisation
Overgeneralisation
Omision
Substetution
Tranpsosition - 45What would indicate a child's broadening lexical range in their writing?Including adjectives, adverbs and function words.
- 46What is a polysyllabic word?One with more than one syllable - it is a sign of growing writing confidence - development.
- 47What is a simple sentence?One unit of thought.
- 48What is a compound sentence?Where more thoughts are added - usually using a conjunction such as and...
- 49What type of "mood" do children mostly write in during the early stages of writing development?Declarative sentences - only later do exclamatory - imperatives and interrogatives emerge.
- 50What is a fronted adverbial clause?Where the adverb is placed before the main clause - "Desperately we clung on to the raft". A sign of growing confidence and to make writing interesting.
- 51How should proper nouns be written?With Capitalisation of the initial grapheme.
- 52What is the term for when two free or unbound morphemes are placed together to make a single word Foot + Ball = FootballCompound word
- 53What inflected (bound morpheme) ending shows the simple past tense of a verb.ED
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