LING 2P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phoneme, Phonemic Awareness, Metalinguistic Awareness
30 Jun 2018
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● Transition from novice (reading and writing is pretend) to conventional
● 5-7 age
New competencies
● Thoughtful attitude towards and awareness of print
○ Print is special and works in a special way
○ Aware they do not understand this special way this print works
■ Novices are confident they read and write in pretend play, experimenters
know they cannot read and write
● They may even refuse to read and write
○ “I don’t know what it says” “I can’t spell that”
■ Called print related refusals
● Discovery of words
○ May ask adult to read word
● Discovery of a relation between sounds and letters
○ Understanding alphabetic principle
○ Match sounds to letters but not always in conventional way
● Ability to focus on one or a few aspects of conventional reading and writing at a time
○ Such as words, word boundaries, meaning of words
■ So complex can only focus on one of these aspects at once
Meaning
● Mostly developed concept of story
○ Story grammar
■ Attend to problems in story
■ More focus on mental states of characters
■ May fail to provide a resolution
● Awareness of literary properties of text
○ Sounding literate in pretend reading
■ Know story books have language forms not found in spoken languages
● Literary phrases
○ “Once upon a time”
● Literary words
○ Use words that more closely resemble those in text
● Reading like intonation
Form
● Alphabet letters
○ Alphabet recognition
○ Conventional letter formation
○ Metalinguistic awareness of letters
■ Can talk about and think about properties of letters and names of letters
● Letter formation requires direct instruction
● Individualized instruction strategies
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Document Summary
Transition from novice (reading and writing is pretend) to conventional. Thoughtful attitude towards and awareness of print. Print is special and works in a special way. Aware they do not understand this special way this print works. Novices are confident they read and write in pretend play, experimenters know they cannot read and write. They may even refuse to read and write. I don"t know what it says i can"t spell that . Discovery of a relation between sounds and letters. Match sounds to letters but not always in conventional way. Ability to focus on one or a few aspects of conventional reading and writing at a time. Such as words, word boundaries, meaning of words. So complex can only focus on one of these aspects at once. More focus on mental states of characters. Know story books have language forms not found in spoken languages. Use words that more closely resemble those in text.
