AED 302 Study Guide - Final Guide: Instructional Design, Alphabetic Principle, Phonemic Awareness
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Reading comprehension the ability to read a text and understand its meaning. Strategies: students are more successful at this when they can relate a new text to their lives. Asking questions, using graphic organizers, and summarizing the main points of a text are some activities that can be done to help gauge a student"s comprehension. Oral language is the system that relates sounds to meanings through communicating by word of mouth. The first steps of ___ development are typically natural accomplishments and happen without formal instruction. Children learn various language patterns from the people around them. Wida (world-class instructional design and assessment) categorizes language proficiency into six levels. Student has a very minimum grasp of the language. They can understand pictures and graphs, and use short words or phrases. These students can follow easy, one- step directions and answer simple questions like "who is your friend?" or "where is the puppy?" Student begins to use language associated with content areas.
