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Literacy

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Literacy

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    1. Literacy Unlocking the Mystery of Language Acquisition

    2. The doors of language Learning Door #1: Listening Door #2: Speaking Door # 3: Reading Door #4: Writing

    3. What is Literacy? Reading Writing

    4. Stages of Learning Grammar Stage: K-4 Collect, memorize, gather information Logic Stage: 5-8 Connect Facts: Critical Thinking (Why?) Rhetoric Stage: 9-12 Expression with fluency, grace, eloquence, persuasiveness

    5. Areas of Language Study Academic English Vocabulary Building/Spelling Grammar & Structure of Language Why Study a foreign language?

    6. Academic English The fabric of textbooks and manuals Highly organized though processes Specialized vocabularies More complex than pleasure reading Mostly grades 9-12

    7. Vocabulary Building Why the strong emphasis on vocabulary building? Quote from Johnson OConnor

    8. How do you build vocabulary? 40-60 repetitions of a word in context Study of root words & derivatives Prefixes and Suffixes Read! Read! Read! The Sin of Silent Reading

    9. English Word Pyramid 10 words 25% 50 words 50% 100 words 60% 1000 words 85% 10,000 words 98%

    10. 10 Most Useful Words in English a an be for have in of that the to

    11. We Remember Reading Hearing Words Looking at Pictures Watching a Movie Looking at an Exhibit Watching a Demonstration Seeing it Actually Done Participating in a Discussion Giving a Talk Doing a Dramatic Presentation Simulating the Real Thing Doing the Real Thing

    12. Learning Grammar and Structure Bathed in the sounds of the language Patterns of grammar and Spelling Shurley Method for Grammar instruction Exceptions to the Rules Idioms

    13. Language Learning Games Bingo Tic-Tac-Toe Vocabulary Bees Spelling Bees Concentration Memory Match Chain Drills Foldables Drama

    14. Why Latin? Isnt Latin Dead?

    15. Fact #1 60% of English words have Latin Roots Most spelling has stayed the same or vary similar

    16. Fact #2 90% of all words 3 syllables or more come from Latin Large quantities of technical and specialized terms (medical, academic English, etc)

    17. Fact #3 Romance Languages are spoken by 750 million people in 57 countries.

    18. Language and Logic Latin study provides Rules Order Structure that can be transferred to other areas of study.

    19. Resources English From the Roots Up Joegil Lundquist Vocabulary from Classical RootsNorma Fifer & Nancy Flowers Victory Drill Book August C. Enderlin, editor Everyday Words from Classical Origins Perfection Learning Vocabulary Development Using Roots and Riddles Claudia Vurnakes Vocabulary: Latin I Frode Jensen Ways Children Learn Geeta Rani Lall An ESL Teachers Handbook Don Edic for LEI A Natural History of Latin Tore Jensen www.memoriapress.com (source for Latin, logic and classical education materials) www.promotelatin.org (website of the National Committee for Latin and Greek) Also: The Shurley Method Brenda Shurley and Ruth Wetsell The Well-Trained Mind Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer

    20. Questions? Answers

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