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The act of understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Students could equate cognition to understanding. |
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Thinking about one's own mental
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Students will use metacognition to help themselves be aware of what they understand. |
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| The study of how language and society work together. |
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| The relationship between words, symbols, and expressions. |
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| Sharing thoughts, feelings, or ideas through speech, writing, or signs. |
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| Example: There is a word in there that you might want to add to your lexicon . Lexicon standing for collection of words. |
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| Looking at how a language is actually used by its speakers and then make up rules about it. |
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| A prescriptive grammar talks about rules and the structure of a language. |
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| What most of us refer to as the correct and proper way to speak English. We expect that our students will use Standard English when speaking in the classroom. |
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| Also known as "Black English" |
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| A type of a language that is specific to a certain region or social group. The dialect of the characters in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is different from the dialect of the characters in The Giver. |
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| A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, when speaking in a formal setting, an English speaker may be more likely to speak more formally then they would hanging out with their friends at the park. |
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| an individual sound such as those which can be represented by these spellings: ck, s, ll, ea, j, and qu |
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| Examples include letters, characters, numbers, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems. |
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| Unbreakable" comprises three morphemes: un- (a bound morpheme signifying "not"), -break- (the root, a free morpheme), and -able (a free morpheme signifying "can be done"). |
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| the study of the sounds of speech |
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| the organization of sounds |
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| the study of the structure and content of word forms |
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| A student who is making a mistake with the order of adjectives and nouns is lacking understanding of this (i.e., student says "I live in the the house red" instead of "I live in the red house".) |
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| This is the knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letters and combinations of letters which represent those sounds. |
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