Playing with language : improving elementary reading through metalinguistic awareness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zipke, Marcy (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2021]
Series:Language and literacy series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Metalinguistic language instruction for reading
  • Phonemic awareness : listening to sounds in words
  • Set for variability : acquiring a mindset of flexibility
  • Orthographic awareness : using patterns to encode and decode
  • Semantic awareness : focus on homonyms
  • Syntactic awareness : focus on multi-meaning phrases and sentences
  • Morphological awareness : word parts with meaning
  • Pragmatic awareness : choose your words carefully!
  • Metalinguistic awareness and reading comprehension : putting it all together
  • Assessment of metalinguistic awareness
  • Conclusion: Why metalinguistic awareness is important.