Vocabulary(week+13.14)

Construct(v)(often passive) Construct means to form sth by putting different things together. Ex. Within this process, children are encouraged to use invented spellings in their writings-that is, spelling approximations that are constructed by them on the basis of what they have learned about the orthographic system. Ball, E. W. (1993).Assessing phoneme awareness//. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 24, 130-139.//

Academic word: Inadequate(adj) Inadequate means not enough or not good enough. Ex. Inadequate phonemic awareness leads to lags in the acquisition of word decoding, which impairs reading comprehension and reading fluency, resulting in long-lasting, pervasive reading difficulties (Ukrainetz, Ross, & Harm, 2009). Ukrainetz, T. A., Ross, C. L. , & Harm, H. M. ( 2009 ). An Investigation of treatment scheduling for phonemic awareness with kindergartners who are at risk for reading difficulties. //Language, Speech, and Hearing Service in Schools, 40 // , 86-100.