Definitions+&+Explanations

Here are a list of definitions that will help you understand Reading and writing and the content of this wiki a little better.


 * Alphabetic principle** - The understanding that spoken language is made up of sounds and sounds can be mapped to written letters.
 * Language -** is a system of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication and the rules used to manipulate them.
 * Learning** -is the acquisition and development of memories and behaviors, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values, and wisdom. It is the product of experience and the goal of education
 * Literacy** -the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a literate society, so as to take part in that society.
 * Phonemes** - The sounds of language that make a difference to meaning. There are 44 phonemes in the English language.
 * Phonic awareness** - The insight that every spoken work can be conceived as a sequence of Phonemes. Phonic awareness is important for understanding the alphabetic principal.
 * Phonics** - Instruction in the sound-letter relationships used in reading and writing. Phonics involves understanding the Alphabetic principle.
 * Pragmatics** - The social, communivative side of language. Pragmatics involves turn taking, maintaining topic relevance, understabding gestures, tone of voice and judging what kind of language form or genre to use in different social situations.
 * Reading** - is the cognitive process of deriving meaning from written or printed text.It is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas.
 * Speaking** -the processe associated with the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language.
 * Semantics** -Is concerned with meaning. Semantics or meaning is achieved by the choice of words, word order and the tone and stress plased on words. In spoken language the facial expressions and gestures affest how meanings are communicated.
 * Syntax** - Refers to the way words, phrases and clauses are structured in sentances - the order of words.
 * Text** - is the product of a process of productive and interpretation of meanings. Texts can be comprised of words, images, signs, symbols, gestures, and body language.
 * Writing** -is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system).
 * VELS** - The Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) is the curriculum framework for Preparatory to Year 10 school levels, which replaced the Curriculum and Standards Framework II (CSF 2) in 2006
 * Vocabulary** - All of the words of a particular language. Can also refer to the knowledge of words and word meanings. Also known as lexicon.