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Author Moats, Louisa Cook, 1944-

Title Speech to print : language essentials for teachers / by Louisa Cook Moats.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub., [2000]
©2000

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  372.6 M687S    DUE 01-25-21
Description xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chapter 1 Why Study Language? 1 -- What Is Language? -- Literacy Is the Most Important Goal of Schooling -- Skillful Teaching Prevents Most Reading Problems -- Teaching Reading Is Complex and Challenging -- New Research About Language and Reading -- How Reading and Spelling Develop -- Principles of Effective Teaching of Reading, Spelling, and Writing -- Brief Survey of Language Knowledge -- Comprehensive Survey of Language Knowledge -- Chapter 2 Phonetics 21 -- Speech Sounds Are Elusive -- Phoneme Counting -- Speech Sound Identification -- Phonetic Transcription -- Chapter 3 Phonology 41 -- Phoneme Is a Psychological Abstraction -- Phonemes and Minimal Pairs -- Phonetic Variation -- Allophones -- Systematic Variation in Speech Sound Production -- Sequences, Syllables, and Stress -- Chapter 4 Morphology 59 -- Morphemes: The Smallest Meaningful Units -- Individual Differences in Use of Derivational Morphology -- Derivational Morphology: Intervention -- Chapter 5 Structure of English Orthography 81 -- A Brief History of Writing -- Nature of English Orthography -- Historical Layers in English Orthography -- Sound-Symbol Correspondences in American English: How They Work -- Orthographic Conventions -- Chapter 6 Semantics 111 -- Varieties of Word Meaning -- Phrase and Sentence Meaning -- Pragmatics: Making Sense in Context -- Reference in Discourse -- Teaching Vocabulary and Other Aspects of Meaning -- Chapter 7 Syntax 131 -- Correct or Incorrect Syntax? -- Natural Knowledge of Syntax -- Generative Grammar -- Phrase Structure -- Chapter 8 Language and Instruction 145 -- Emergent Reader -- Principles for Teaching Decoding Well -- Summary: The Power of Instruction -- Lesson 1 Introducing the Letter-Sound Correspondence /1/ to a Novice Reader -- Lesson 2 Working with Suffixes -- Lesson 3 Oral Reading for Fluency -- Appendix C Additional Examples of Orthographic Patterns in English 179 -- Consonant Generalizations -- Vowel Spelling Generalizations -- Appendix D Syllable Review and Self-Evaluation 181 -- Six Types of Syllables in English Orthography -- Word Lists for Certain Syllable Types -- Syllable Self-Evaluation -- Appendix E 100 Words Commonly Used in Writing 187 -- "Families" for Some of the Oddities -- Appendix F Developmental Spelling Inventories 191 -- Directions for Administering the Spelling Inventories.
Subject Language arts (Elementary)
Language arts teachers -- Training of.
Other Form: Online version: Moats, Louisa Cook. Speech to print. Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub., c2000 (OCoLC)606559922
ISBN 1557663874 paperback
9781557663870 paperback
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