TEACHING OF LITERACY SKILLS
EDU 410
MOST IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS
(FALCONS ACADEMY)
LESSON 01 TO 22
Q:What is literacy?
The term literacy refers:
1. often mainly to reading,
2. sometimes to reading and writing,
3. more rarely, to reading, writing, speaking and listening
Q:What are the five facts about litracy skills?
1. Reading aloud is vital.
2. Literacy saves lives.
3. Literacy teaches you to own and value your own story.
4. Literacy gets you to the goal.
5. Literacy empowers.
Q:Importance Of Literacy Skills In Classrooms?
Development of literacy skills is strongly connected to the development
of a country. Supporting young children’s language and literacy
development has long been considered a practice that produces strong
readers and writers later in life, who then contribute positively in the
country’s development and growth. Literacy skills are also strongly
connected to classroom learning, which again ultimately contributes to
the country’s development and growth.
Q:What is Language? FALCONS ACADEMY
Language is a system of communication using sounds or symbols that
enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas and experiences.
Language is the basic key for communication.
Q: Phonology?
Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural
languages. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic
organization of sounds in languages.
Q:Morphology
Morphology is the study of how things are put together, like the make-up
of animals and plants, or the branch of linguistics that studies the
structure of words.
Q: Syntax?
“Syntax” is a Greek word, which means “order”.it is the sequence in
which words are put together to form sentences. In English, the usual
sequence is subject, verb, and object (Note: Syntactic languages, such as
English, use word order to indicate word relationships).
Q:SEMANTICS
The most general definition of semantics is that it is "the study of
linguistic meaning", or "the study of the meaning of words and sentences"
Q:Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of "how to do things with words", or "the study of
the contribution of context to meaning"
Q:What is language learning?
Language learning, on the other hand, is the result of direct instructions
in the rules of language. It certainly is not an age-appropriate activity for
your young learners. In language learning, students have conscious
knowledge of the new language and can talk about that knowledge.
Q:What is language acquisition
Language acquisition is the process by which children acquire the
capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and
use words and sentences to communicate in a natural way and not
consciously.
Q:What is first language?
It is the language that a person acquires in early childhood because it is
spoken in the family and/or it is the language of the region where the
child lives. Also known as mother tongue, first language, arterial
language, or L1.Native language is the one that the child learns from their
parents in home environment.
Q:What is second language?
It is the language other than the mother tongue that a person or
community uses for public communication, especially in trade, higher
education, and administration. It is a language learned by a person after
his or her native language, esp. as a resident of an area where it is in
general use.
Q:What is forien language?
A foreign language is a language originating from another country. It is
also a language not spoken very commonly in the native country of the
person.
Q: What is a Code? FALCONS ACADEMY
Code is the message conveyed through communication (read, view,
listen) and encode (write, speak, present) – uses alphabet, sounds,
spelling conventions, sentence structure, etc.
Q:Student Centered Classrooms?
Student-centered learning is focused on each student’s interests, abilities,
and learning styles, placing the teacher as a facilitator of learning.
Q:Teacher centred classrooms?
Teacher-centered learning is focused on teacher’s interests, abilities, and
learning styles, placing the teacher as the center of classroom.
Q:Activity Based Learning?
(ABL) is a methodology where children of different ages are grouped
together in one class and learn at their own pace through teacher-
facilitated exercises.
Q:Importance of Lowercases Letters?
Lowercase is faster to write,easier to read and saves space on the printing
material.It is also easier on the eyes and do not burden coding-decoding
systems.It provides fluency in writing. Lesser time, lesser energy, lesser
space provides you more fluency, that’s why, most of the writings and
readings are related to lowercase.
Q: Phonemic Code
The phonemic code is the specific print=sound relationships written
English is based on. For instance: cat /c+a+t/. The English phonemic code
of phonograms (distinct written letter or letters that represent specific
sound(s)) is complex.
Q:Manner of Articulation
The manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the
articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when
making a speech sound.
Q:Kindergarten
When the child turns 4-5 years old. The child will go to kindergarten
usually for 2 years that is when they are at age 5 and 6, before they
proceed to primary school at age of almost 7.
Q:What are some benefits of bingo for children?
• Improve numbers skills, including number recognition.
• Develop social skills. FALCONS
• Enhance cognitive function.
• Develop knowledge of specific topics when you used themed bingo
games.
• Improve teamwork skills if children play in a team.
Q: Types of English Vowel Sounds
There are mainly three types of vowel sounds:
1) Monophthongs
2) Diphthongs
3) Triphthongs
Q: What Is a Diphthong?
A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single word, in
which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in
coin, loud, side).It means: There are two vowel sound. There is a different
beginning and different end. The position of tongue changes because it
glides from one position to another position.
