Across
- 3. Books with illustrations and written labels without a plotline.
- 5. The part of language that involves speech sounds
- 8. Formal and informal language styles are referred to as _________.
- 10. The ability to think about language and helps children in language learning.
- 13. Bilingual children must acquire ______, an ability to read and write in two languages.
- 15. The part of language related to word meaning and develops throughout childhood.
- 16. When children suddenly realize that their native language is not understood by others they experience language ______.
- 18. It is important to not correct children who apply rules of their _________ language when speaking a new, second language.
Down
- 1. The stage of writing in which letters are randomly chosen to represent a message.
- 2. A speech problem sometimes called stuttering.
- 4. The social rules of language.
- 6. The smallest units of language that hold meaning.
- 7. The most common source of poor voice quality is _______ abuse that results from a child talking so loudly or screaming so often that callouses form on their vocal tissues.
- 9. Children who use a different _______ system than that of the dominant culture may be teased or corrected, for the first time, in the primary years.
- 11. These are picture books with story lines.
- 12. Register _________ is the ability to shift back and forth between two very different kinds of language such as switching from slang to formal language.
- 14. _______ growth is rapid in the primary years as children learn to read and write conventionally.
- 17. ______ words are words that children can instantly recognize.
