Phonemic &
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness
This is the ability to recognize groups of sounds in words
What is phonological awareness?
This is the process of blending sounds to read a word.
What is decoding?
When you use this strategy to build fluency, you and the student read a passage together.
What is choral reading?
This is the RP term a word a student needs to know in the moment to understand part of a text but does not need to have in their long term memory.
What is a now word?
This is an educated guess about something that will happen in a story.
What is a prediction?
This is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is a phoneme?
This is the correct way to say the sound for the letter B.
What is ‘b’?
When you use this strategy, you read aloud and then the student reads aloud after you.
What is echo reading?
This is the frequency of which you should teach a newly introduced word.
What is over and over and over again! Repeated exposure is best.
This is the type of connection a student makes when comparing characters from two different books.
What is a text to text?
This is an example of isolating phonemes.
What is identifying the beginning, middle, or end of a word?
This is the reason the ‘a’ says ‘ā’ in the word ‘tale’.
What is because there is an ‘e’ at the end of the word?
These are the three main components of fluency.
What are: speed, accuracy, and expression?
This is an example of a multi-sensory approach to learning a vocabulary word.
What is: drawing the word, using it in a story, acting it out, etc.
This is the strategy a student utilizes when he or she reads between the lines to figure out something the author did not explicitly state.
What is making an inference?
This is the number of phonemes in the word ‘skittle’
What is 5?
This is the category the combination of letters ‘br’ falls into.
What is a consonant blend?
This is the amount of time a student in the BR curriculum will read during one round of their fluency practice.
What is one minute?
This is the RP term for a word that a student needs to understand not only for the context of the text they are reading, but they should also retain it for a long time.
What is a forever word?
This is the strategy you would encourage a student to use if you prompted him/her to “make a movie in your mind of what is happening in the story”.
What is visualizing?
All phonological and phonemic awareness activities should be presented in this way.
What is verbally?
This is the category that the letter combination ‘ou’ falls into.
What is a dipthong?
This is the component of the lesson in which the tutor should model good fluency for the student.
What is the tutor read aloud?
This is the domain directly linked to a student’s mastery over vocabulary
What is comprehension?
These are the times when you should ask a reader questions.
What is before, during, and after reading!