Week 7

Pretend Reading
Definition: Notice that this child is "reading" her favorite book to her friend, but she's telling her what happens based on the pictures, what she recalls from the story being read to her, and her own experience, not what's actually written. 
https://articles.extension.org/pages/66929/supporting-and-encouraging-emergent-literacy-in-child-care

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Importance: Pretend reading is important to children and their beginning stages of phonics because it is their way of acting as if they can read and follow along in a story. 

Memory Reading
Definition: an accurate recitation of text accompanied by finger-point reading. Words Their Way.

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Importance: The reason Memory Reading is so important to our children and their progress in learning phonics is for the fact that it represents children and

Language Experience Approach
Definition: is a whole language approach that promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language. 
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/LEA.html

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Importance: This concept is important to our education because children can use this approach as ways to connect their learning to what they have actually experienced. An example of this would be creating a simple sentence and adding adjectives to create a sentence that produces imagery.

Dialogic Reading
Definition: is essentially a reading practice using picture books to enhance and improve literacy and language skills.  The basis for this is asking simple questions and following up with expanded questions. http://dialogic-reading.blogspot.com/

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Importance: This type of reading is important to a students education because it focuses on books that are predictable and easy to read. This benefits them by expanding their thinking to what comes next and allows for questions to develop before it happens. 

Interactive Read Aloud
Definition: provides opportunities for students to engage with texts through listening and discussion to. promote deeper understanding about the meaning of texts. They can also learn skills and. strategies to use in their own reading
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=hse_all

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Importance: Interactive Reading is important to our overall learning because it allows for students to engage in reading and questioning with the entire class. Doing so keeps the students engaged and interactive with the teacher and their peers. 

Mock Linear
Definition: a kind of pretend writing where children beginning to write approximate the broader contours of the writing system, starting with the linear arrangement of print. Words Their Way.

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Importance: The reason that Mock Linear is important to our students academic learning is because it shows how students have begun to learn certain stages in phonics and have progressed to a step that represents some sort of writing. 


Alliteration
Definition: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alliteration

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Importance: Alliteration is important to our students education because it is one of many types of literary devices. These are important to our writing because it gives it a sense of ownership and attention to detail.

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