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The document discusses key concepts related to language and reading development. It identifies 5 macroskills of language: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Reading development progresses through 5 stages: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The document also discusses academic reading, different types of texts like narrative and expository, and the FISH principles for formal writing.
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O From Your Environment o Parents, Society/peers o Religion o Government o Culture/tradition o Yaya/helper
The document discusses key concepts related to language and reading development. It identifies 5 macroskills of language: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Reading development progresses through 5 stages: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The document also discusses academic reading, different types of texts like narrative and expository, and the FISH principles for formal writing.
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Macroskills Language
1. Reading Knowledge of syntax/grammar
2. Writing Content + formal 3. Speaking 4. Listening Reading 5. Viewing Thinking Language Construction and reconstruction of meaning - Means of communication Prior knowledge of the world - System of symbols o Types o Representation Hour glass o Words Crammer, swift reader Stages of Reading Development Sponge 1. Phonemic Awareness Absorbs Sound/patterns everything 2. Phonics Jelly bags Combining both sound and symbol Selective 3. Fluency readers Reading automatically, efficiently, Slave in diamond mine and with expression Wrong info 4. Vocabulary Academic reading Learning words and refining new ones (dictionary and synonyms) Hard, boring, info-based 5. Comprehension Scientific (journals) Understanding, quick recall o Data-gathering procedure (empirical) Schema Language of the sciences Prior knowledge Kinds of texts Content Narrative Belief systems (wrong/right) o Story form o From your environment Fiction o Parents, society/peers Plot, setting o Religion etc. (Freitag’s) o Government Expository o Culture/tradition o Info-based text (non-fiction) o Yaya/helper o Academic text Rhetorical pattern Formal Discourse (way/pattern of Academe, institutions, orgs, schools speaking) Challenge known beliefs Influence to do good or bad FISH! F – formality o Use formal diction o No contractions o No jargon (highfalutin words) o No slang/colloquial words I – impersonality o Use 3rd person o He, She, It, Author To avoid biases o Don’t use imperative words