1 Review Questions for EDHD 425 Test 2 Dr Min Wang The process of learning to read Phonological awareness 1 What are metalinguistic skills If a child says train is a long word and caterpillar is a short one what kind of problem is he she having 2 What do we mean by phonological awareness Describe the three levels of phonological awareness and one example for each 3 How can we assess children s segmentation blending and manipulation skills at the phonemic level Give one example for each 4 What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonics 5 How do children develop phonological awareness during the preschool years 6 Describe one type of research which demonstrates that phonological skills in young children are a causal determinant of reading success 7 Why does the process of learning to read promote phonological awareness 2 8 Explain the reciprocal relationship between phonological awareness and reading success The process of learning to read Models of reading acquisition and skilled reading 9 What does emerging literacy mean 10 What is print awareness Please give 3 examples 11 What do we mean by letter knowledge Why is it important for learning to read Is it sufficient 12 Describe the key features of the four stages of reading acquisition 13 What are the two types of important knowledge children need for acquiring spelling skills Give one example to demonstrate these two types of knowledge 3 14 Define invented spelling and give two examples 15 Why does morphological and syntactic awareness support children s learning words 16 What makes skilled and less skilled readers different 17 On p 81 in our textbook Preventing reading difficulties in young children Table 2 2 lists the First Grade Accomplishments Please summarize the long list of achievements into several categories such as phonological awareness letter sound correspondence knowledge spelling reading comprehension and writing etc Motivation 18 What are intrinsic and extrinsic motivations give an example for each 4 19 Why is setting up achievement goals for children in class important 20 How to use goals to motivate children to learn describe two main principles 21 Why is interest important for reading motivation 22 How to create a responsive classroom context to motivate literacy learning for children Bilingualism bilteracy 23 Define addictive bilingualism and subtractive bilingualism 5 24 What does the Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis mean for bilingual biliteracy children 25 What are the major challenges facing ESL children in our classroom give an example 26 If you have an ESL student in the class with no proficiency in English and speaks a language without good resources of instruction what aspects of his her language and reading development should you pay attention to Language disorders 27 What kinds of language difficulties do hearing impaired or deaf children have 28 What kinds of educational methods would you prefer to teach hearing impaired or deaf children Why 29 Who are the children with specific language impairment SLI List two kinds of language difficulties they have 6 30 What are the differences between normal developmental disfluency and stuttering 31 Please use your own words to describe the 10 principles to guide language instruction for children with SLI see Figure 9 4 on p 363 in our textbook Berko Gleason Reading difficulties and predictors 32 According to dimensional approach how are reading difficulties defined 33 What are the differences between norm referenced and criterion referenced reading assessments Why should we use the two types of assessments in conjunction 34 What are the three major risk factors for predicting reading difficulties in young children 35 Explain the two major predictors for success and failure in reading when children enter school 7 36 How can parents provide a home literacy environment to influence children s reading development 37 If research shows that the correlation between socioeconomic status and reading difficulties in young children is about 23 what does this correlation inform us Preventing reading difficulties in young children 38 In preschool settings one important job for teachers is to help children develop phonological awareness What kinds of activities can you provide for children to train their phonological awareness 39 Is phonological awareness sufficient for children to truly understand the alphabetic principle What is the other fundamental skill that children need to acquire in order to master the alphabetic principle 40 When a teacher reads aloud with kindergarteners what kinds of effective practices he she should be aware of 8 41 Describe Word Wall and Make Words activities for First grade students What are the purposes of these literacy instructional activities 42 What are the major characteristics of Whole Language and Phonics instructional approaches What is right about Whole Language and Phonics and what are the limitations of each 43 What types of spelling instruction would you provide to a Second grade student give an example 44 When your students reading comprehension breaks down in Third grade or higher what teaching strategies would you employ to help them