Neurobiology of Language What is categorical perception, and how does it apply to the perception of consonant sounds?

Because the ELA classroom must focus on literature (stories, drama, and poetry) as well as literary nonfiction, a great deal of informational reading in grades ... ... words with an accurate beginning consonant sound and sometimes an accurate final consonant sound. ... Informational texts introduce vocabulary words that are ... In intact speech, as well as in both adverse conditions, non-native speakers gave relatively less weight to lexical plausibility than to acoustic cues. Under ... Strand: READING STANDARDS FOR INFORMATIONAL TEXT. Cluster 1: Key Ideas and Details ... Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds. Write a letter/letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds. (phonemes) ... 10 With prompting and support, read informational texts or appropriate ... ... informational text. By the end of Level K ... Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant digraphs, and short vowels ... 1.6 Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. ... consonant digraphs. For a TTS masker, which results in greater informational masking, we predicted that children with better language, working memory, and selective attention would ... ... informational dimensions -- size projection, dynamicity, audibility ... In a Mandarin disyllabic word or phrase, the initial consonant position in syllable ... Blend letter sounds to decode vowel-consonant (VC) and consonant- vowel ... See previous grade levels for more information about word relationships.