Capacity
Influences listening behavior, physiological influences such as auditory acuity and auditory perception (ability to hear and ability to discriminate among sounds, blend sounds together, and hold sequences of sound in memory).
DLTA (Directed Listening/Thinking Activity)
A strategy that helps direct children's thinking as they listen to a story and gives them a purpose for listening.
Interactive Story Book Reading
Book sharing experience in which a child and a more knowledgeable person, usually and adult, both contribute.
Motivation
The relevance of the listening and the child's willingness to focus on the task at hand.
High Cognitive Demand Strategies
Inference questions (I wonder why...), connections (what does this remind you of?), predictions (what do you think will happen next?), clarification and elaboration from the child, teacher elaboration on child's comment or text, explaining vocabulary or c
Low Cognitive Demand Strategies
Reading text and pausing for child to supply word and asking child who, what, and where questions, asking child to recall events or information from text.
Sustaining Strategies
Allowing a child to hold the book and turn the pages, pointing to and labeling or commenting on details, gestures, or sounds, asking a child to point out details in illustrations, asking the child to label details in illustrations.
Habits
Making predictions, watching the speaker, striving to understand, formulating questions, identifying and summarizing main ideas, and responding to what is heard.
Environmental Print
Print found in signs and logos, often the first and most important form of early literacy experiences.
Onset
The initial consonant, consonant blend, or consonant digraph of a syllable. For example, the onset's in pan,plan,and than are p,pl, and th.
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound that are combined and contrasted in meaningful ways in a language's words. P in pit and B in bit.
Rime
Is part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it.
Rhyme
Correspondence of sound between words or endings of words.
Syllable
A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or part of a word: e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
Word Families
Is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made from affixes.
Drawing
First rapid back and forth swipes, second round and round, lines and dots, and then representational.
Scribbling
Marks made on a age without control, that is, without any intention of making a particular representation, neither drawing nor text.
Representational Drawings
Are planned and look something like the object or person the child intends to create.
Bookpack
Contains five items and is an assortment of children;s books suitable for reading aloud and a selection of accompanying material in a transportable container the child can take home.
A. A note to parents and the child introducing the book pack.
B. Books s
Book Sharing Routines
Familiar, expected actions and language that accompany book reading.
Family Roles
Environmental arrangers, observers, interactors, motivators/encourages.
Bookhandling Skills
Ways of looking at, holding, turning pages, and otherwise manipulating books in order for their texts and illustrations to be accessible for accurate meaning making.
Concept of Story
A person schematic for story. A child's concept of story development from very simple notions, such as that a story has a beginning, middle, and end, to the more complex notions embodied in story grammar.
Story Grammar
A representation of the structure of a typical narrative, including the required elements of a main character or characters: a setting: a problem-solving action or event: a goal: an attempt or attempts to solve the problem or attain the goal: resolution:
Narrative Elements
All the aspects that make up a story. They include the setting, theme, plot, characters, point of view, tone, and imagery or symbolism.
A. Setting- Where the story takes place.
B. Character- Description of the character and a little of their background.
C
Capacity
Influences listening behavior, physiological influences such as auditory acuity and auditory perception (ability to hear and ability to discriminate among sounds, blend sounds together, and hold sequences of sound in memory).
DLTA (Directed Listening/Thinking Activity)
A strategy that helps direct children's thinking as they listen to a story and gives them a purpose for listening.
Interactive Story Book Reading
Book sharing experience in which a child and a more knowledgeable person, usually and adult, both contribute.
Motivation
The relevance of the listening and the child's willingness to focus on the task at hand.
High Cognitive Demand Strategies
Inference questions (I wonder why...), connections (what does this remind you of?), predictions (what do you think will happen next?), clarification and elaboration from the child, teacher elaboration on child's comment or text, explaining vocabulary or c
Low Cognitive Demand Strategies
Reading text and pausing for child to supply word and asking child who, what, and where questions, asking child to recall events or information from text.
Sustaining Strategies
Allowing a child to hold the book and turn the pages, pointing to and labeling or commenting on details, gestures, or sounds, asking a child to point out details in illustrations, asking the child to label details in illustrations.
Habits
Making predictions, watching the speaker, striving to understand, formulating questions, identifying and summarizing main ideas, and responding to what is heard.
Environmental Print
Print found in signs and logos, often the first and most important form of early literacy experiences.
Onset
The initial consonant, consonant blend, or consonant digraph of a syllable. For example, the onset's in pan,plan,and than are p,pl, and th.
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound that are combined and contrasted in meaningful ways in a language's words. P in pit and B in bit.
Rime
Is part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it.
Rhyme
Correspondence of sound between words or endings of words.
Syllable
A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or part of a word: e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
Word Families
Is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made from affixes.
Drawing
First rapid back and forth swipes, second round and round, lines and dots, and then representational.
Scribbling
Marks made on a age without control, that is, without any intention of making a particular representation, neither drawing nor text.
Representational Drawings
Are planned and look something like the object or person the child intends to create.
Bookpack
Contains five items and is an assortment of children;s books suitable for reading aloud and a selection of accompanying material in a transportable container the child can take home.
A. A note to parents and the child introducing the book pack.
B. Books s
Book Sharing Routines
Familiar, expected actions and language that accompany book reading.
Family Roles
Environmental arrangers, observers, interactors, motivators/encourages.
Bookhandling Skills
Ways of looking at, holding, turning pages, and otherwise manipulating books in order for their texts and illustrations to be accessible for accurate meaning making.
Concept of Story
A person schematic for story. A child's concept of story development from very simple notions, such as that a story has a beginning, middle, and end, to the more complex notions embodied in story grammar.
Story Grammar
A representation of the structure of a typical narrative, including the required elements of a main character or characters: a setting: a problem-solving action or event: a goal: an attempt or attempts to solve the problem or attain the goal: resolution:
Narrative Elements
All the aspects that make up a story. They include the setting, theme, plot, characters, point of view, tone, and imagery or symbolism.
A. Setting- Where the story takes place.
B. Character- Description of the character and a little of their background.
C