Chapter 12: Reading and Writing
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Important term Petroglyphs – stone carving
Important term Pictograms – symbols representing object or concept
Important term Ideogram – similar to pictogram though pictogram is more literal
Important term Cuneifrom – wedge shaped (Summerians in Mesopotamia (Iraq) 4000 BC
Important term Logographic – word writing
Important term Hieroglyphics - (sacred carvings) Rosetta stone – hieroglyphics, Demotic, classical Greek
Important Term Syllabic writing – symbols representing syllable sounds Japanese – also uses Kanji (Chinese characters) Not efficient for English English has too many inflections
Important terms Alphabetic writing Phoneme Phonemic awareness
Korean and Chinese and Twi Korean uses place of articulation in their alphabetic system Chinese uses characters Maintained due to heritage Twi – spoken in Ghana, uses some IPA symbols
Literacy Drawback of literacy? Biggest obstacles to literacy in our society? Schools affect on literacy?
Spelling Printing press – codified spelling Sound changes – page 524-525