D677- ELEMENTARY LITERACY CURRICULUM |
STUDY GUIDE
frontal lobe - Answers - focus and remember what were reading and where speech is
produced
temporal lobe - Answers - listens to sounds and helps us understand words
pariental lobe - Answers - where we recognize letters and words
occipital lobe - Answers - sight recognition, words on the page
Broca's area - Answers - articulate ideas, use words accurately
systematic instruction - Answers - instruction that presents concepts being built on prior
knowledge, beginning with the easiest concepts and increasing in difficulty
blooms taxonomy - Answers - a hierarchical framework that categorizes cognitive
processes into six levels, ranging from lower-order thinking skills, such as remembering
and understanding, to higher-order thinking skills, such as analyzing and creating
Literacy-rich Environment - Answers - a setting that immerses students in a variety of
reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities and materials, promoting the
development of strong literacy skills
Orthographic Processor - Answers - letter recognition and later word analysis
part of the brain is responsible for understanding the definition or semantics of words
during reading - Answers - meaning processor
step in explicit instruction comes after the teacher has modeled the concept and the
students have been given multiple opportunities to practice the skill with feedback from
the teacher - Answers - "you do together" step in explicit instruction
part of the brain does not develop naturally and is activated as students are taught
structured literacy lessons focusing on sound-symbol connections - Answers - Planum
temporale; At the intersection of the parietal, occipital and temporal lobes
Where in the brain does language comprehension primarily occur? - Answers -
Temporal Lobe or where the Meaning and Context processors
