PSYO 3093 Study Guide - Final Guide: Phonological Awareness, Written Language, Relate

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 3093
• Professor: Helen Deacon

Document Summary

Informal literacy activities: activities that involve print but no which the print is not the direct focus, shared parent-child reading, childs pretend-reading, formal literacy activities, activities in which print is the main focus, teaching the alphabet, spelling words. Learning letter-sound correspondences: teaching about literacy (formal activities) and story book (informal activities) reading are seen as two different distinct types of literacy activities, first claim of the home literacy model, shared storybook reading. Chinese: basic unit is the character which maps onto a syllable & morpheme, morphosyllabic is a more accurate label than logographic , does represent phonology, the whole syllable level, but not phonemes. In young readers, syllable awareness predicts character recognition; phoneme awareness does not: pa affects reading development, pa predicts reading development, bradley & bryant: foundation study on the role of early pa in subsequent reading development. Longitudinal component: 4-5 y. o children, pa measured; followed for 4 year, pa @ 4-5 predicts word reading ability @ 7-8.