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| A developmental psychologist, a social constructivist, proposed cooperative learning,proposed the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development,schematic learning and group work, centers in classrooms for children. |
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| What is the Zone of Proximal Development? |
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| is the way children learn new knowledge being dependent on previous learning, as well as the availability of interactive instruction. |
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| Examples of Zone of Proximal Development? |
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Talking = Learning via group activities
Centers in classroom
Schematic learning
Scaffolding
group work
Classes are a learning community |
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| Students learn information as it is relevant to their schema. Kids connect new knowledge to their lives. |
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| Language Experience Approach |
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| Kids have an experience, kids talk about is, teacher records it. |
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| What is a before reading strategy? |
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| Predicting- Teacher shows the book (Good night moon" and asks guiding questions such as: "what do you think will happen to the moon in this book?" "do you ever see the moon out your window or house?" |
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| What is an after reading strategy? |
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| Story frame- A worksheet usually with sentences and blanks. "The title of the book was _____. The problem in the story was ___________. After that, ____________ happened and then ____________. Finally _________ and at the end of the story _____________." |
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| How many Phonemes are there? |
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| the smallest unit of speech sound |
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| Visual, Meaning, and Structure. |
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| What is the Visual aspect of a cueing system about? |
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| Visual- Graphophonic- the written letter sound relationship. Seeing the letters and saying the sound (alphabetic principle). |
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| What is the Semantic aspect of a cueing system about? |
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| Meaning- Semantics- taking context clues to derive meaning as you read. |
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| What is the Syntactic aspect of a cueing system about? |
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| Structure- Syntactics- the order of words. "John ate the lion." vs. "the lion ate John" |
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| What is the Schematic aspect of a cueing system about? |
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| Previous knowledge- Schematics- taking a real life experience and using it to understand new materials. The book says: "ants, ants, ants everywhere." but Jill reads: "ants, ants, ants in the dishwasher." |
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| What is the Pragmatic aspect of a cueing system about? |
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| Culture- Pragmatics- different words mean different things in different cultures. |
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| What are Phonological Awareness strategies? |
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Phoneme:
*Blending* "M-A-P is Map" sounding letters out.
*Segmenting* "Map is M-A-P" breaking words down.
*Manipulating*, "rap-tap-map" exploring/rhyming phonemes. |
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| What is Environmental Print? |
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| the printed language on signs such as McDonalds and Target. Kids understand the logo before the print because it is a normal part of their environment. |
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| What is Phonological Awareness by definition? |
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| AUDITORY Ability to recognize the sounds of spoken language ad how they can be blended together, segmented, and manipulated. |
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| Phonics is what by definition? |
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| PRINT An instructional approach that links the sounds of spoken language to printed letters. |
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| the entire class says a phrase (repeatedly) in the book when signaled to do so by the teacher. "Peanut Butter and Jelly" book. |
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| The teacher picks her favorite books to share with the class. |
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| A pre-selected group of students will echo the teacher when pointed to. Girls will read "it was a terrible, no good, bad, awful day!" while the boys read, "and then!" (Terrible, Awful, no good day book). |
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| Vygotsky techniques in the class room? |
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| Scaffolding, ZPD, group activities, class discussions, centers for learning, a learning community. |
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| What are the stages of scaffolding? |
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| Modeling, Explicit Instruction, Coaching, Independent Application. |
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| What is invented spelling? |
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| They use what they know about letters, sounds and spelling patterns to spell the word as well as they can. |
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