C_S_D 4020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phonological Awareness, Code-Switching, Dopamine Transporter
Document Summary
Embedded intervention informal opportunities to target literacy skills e. g. , storybook reading; dramatic play; center time child-centered. Explicit intervention brief intervals of structured activity target chosen and sequence planned in advance can include games and other fun activities adult-directed. Phonological awareness rhyming chants, songs syllable recognition activities beginning sounds. Print concepts and alphabet knowledge environmental print awareness print referencing. Oral language shared storybook reading and literate language . Emergent writing props for dramatic play adult-mediated writing story dictation. Bilingual children different strategies, based on child"s literacy skills lower skill: more instructional time in home language higher skill: instruction in l1 and/or l2 instruction. Children who speak african american english not at greater risk for literacy problems most quickly gain skill in code-switching lack of code-switching may/may not indicate a problem. Deficits in phonological awareness most frequent cause of reading and spelling problems. Targeting phonological awareness focus on segmentation and blending multisensory techniques.