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2. What are the four developmental stages of spelling identified by Gentry?

  • pre phonemic, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional
  • conventional letters, invented spelling, appropriate spelling, correct spelling
  • observation, comment, narrative, report
  • prepatory stage, consolidation stage, differentiation stage, integration stage

3. Whats an ascender?

  • using symbols to express meaning
  • parts of letters that go down from the line
  • parts of letters that go up from the line
  • understanding that in English we write from left to right

4. What is a common feature of the telegraphic stage?

  • that children commonly omit function words
  • that children use two word combinations
  • that children use holophrases
  • that children have grammatically complex combinations

5. What is Berko & Brown's fis phenomenon?

  • the theory that parents often respond to the truth in what their child is saying rather than correcting their grammatical mistakes
  • The view that the comprehension of phonological patterns and the meanings they represent develop faster than the childs ability to say them
  • the theory that children whose mothers talk to them more have larger vocabularies
  • using language to indicate a need they want satisfying.

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