EDUC 1031 Wrap up

What does literacy mean to you?

Which of these home literacy activities promote language development?

• Asking wh- questions about what the child is doing

• Asking the child to read by repeating after the adult

• Relating the stories in a book with the child's experiences

• Pointing to words as the adult/child is reading

How does shared book reading promote literacy development?

Select all theories that emphasise the importance of grapheme-phoneme correspondence for the development of decoding skills

• Zimmerman's self-regulatory learning theory

• Ehri's sight word reading theory

• Coutheart's dual route model of word reading

• Simple View of Reading

Select all cognitive skills that are important for early literacy development

• Phonological awareness

• Working memory

• Problem solving

• Attention

How would you differentiate instruction for students with low language proficiency in your classroom?

Which of these are not evidence-based approaches to teaching literacy

• New literacies

• Systematic synthetic phonics

• Analytic phonics

• Self-regulatory strategy development for writing

What is/are the difference/s between reading fluency and reading comprehension?

Which of the following is not characteristic of the English orthography?

• A wide range of (i.e., complex) syllable structures

• Opaque grapheme-phoneme correspondence

• Phoneme-based

• Logographic

Draw something to represent your learning journey in or how you feel about Literacy in School and Society?