Language and Literacy Development in 3-5 Year Olds

[elleng]

Learn strategies and activities to help your 3- to 5-year old master language use.

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/stages-milestones/language-and-literacy-development-3-5-year-olds?

[mercuryblues]

1. Can someone

use this on Palin?

[Igel]

2. Let's call the literacy skill "phonemic awareness."

Tired of educators getting the linguistics wrong.

Phonemic awareness gets you the ability to associate sounds with graphemes via phonemes, and for that you need not just the phonemic inventory but a rudimentary knowledge of allophones. Not incredibly easy, but it's low on the phonology scale. PHonological parsing seems to take decades, and we can even shift our phonology over time (but not usually what we think of as phonemes).

Located after phonemic awareness is all kinds of stuff involving stress and accents, onsets and codas and rhymes and complex syllabic nuclei. You get morphology and morphophonemic alternations. Even phoneme-based writing systems like English (still) is doesn't typically handle those orthographically. We write the phonemes, however arcane the system may be.

Eventually we even get spoonerisms. "A well-boiled icicle" assumes not just knowledge of the onset for bicycle but that the "b" can be "exchanged" with a null onset in a word like "icicle" ("well-oiled bicycle&quot . You can swap complex onsets "A blushing crow" ("crushing blow&quot or segments within the complex onset ("next town drain" for "next down train&quot .


Note that most of the time when an educator speaks of "phonemic awareness" the speaker's just got it wrong.