Prereading stage, Period from birth to the beginning of formal education., Metalinguistic competence, The ability to think about and analyze language as an object of attention. Acquired mainly in the school-age years., Figurative language, Language used in nonliteral and often abstract ways., Predictive, Contains one topic and one vehicle, Proportional, Contains two topics and two vehicles and expresses an analogical relationshipen abstract ways., Proverbs, Statements that express the conventional values, beliefs, and wisdom of a society. A type of figurative language., Literate language, Language used without the aid of context cues to support meaning: highly decontextualized language., Homonyms, Words that are alike in spelling and pronunciation but differ in meaning, Homographs, Words that are spelled the same way and may sound alike, Formative evaluations, Assessment of the language process (rather than the products) of language learning and development.

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