Emergent Literacy for ECE student teachers

Children need to be able to notice, identify and use the different sounds that make up words is an example of

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonological Awareness

• Book knowledge

The smallest units of writing are called

• phonemes

• graphemes

• morphemes

• words

Emergent literacy refers to

• formal language learning

• informal language learning

Emergent literacy skills include meaning-related skills and

• writing skills

• listening skills

• code-related skills

tall and small - the parts in bold are examples of:

• rhyming chunks

• size

• spelling

phonemic and phonological awareness are the same thing

• True

• False

• Not sure

The use of invented spelling

• should not be allowed. Children must learn to spell correctly.

• is an example of emergent literacy behaviour

• means that the child has a learning disability

Today's featured book was called

• Me and my dog

• The dog in the night

• The night I followed the dog