Phonemic Awareness I
Phonemic Awareness II
Phonics
Spelling
Grab Bag
100
Children's basic understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
100
Children blend sounds in order to combine them to form a word.
What are Sound-Blending Activities?
100
The set of relationships between phonology, the sounds in speech, and orthography, the spelling patterns of written language.
What is Phonics?
100
the smallest meaningful part of a word
What is a morpheme?
100
the spelling system
What is orthography?
200
The smallest units of speech.
What is a Phoneme?
200
Teachers say a word and the children identify the sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of the word, or teachers and children isolate sounds as they sing familiar songs.
What are Sound-Isolation Activities?
200
or language of origin
What is Etymology?
200
words created from people's names
What is an eponym?
200
the relationship between sound and the letters representing it
What is phoneme-grapheme correspondence?
300
This segmentation activity comes from the work of Russian psychologist D. B. Elkonin.
What are Elkonin boxes?
300
Children choose one of several words beginning with a particular phoneme or say a word that begins with a particular sound.
What are Sound-Matching Activities?
300
The Tile Test, DIBELS, The Names Test: A Quick Assessment of Decoding Ability
What are Phonics Assessment Tools?
300
Students focus on syllables in this stage and apply what they've learned about one-syllable words to longer, multisyllabic words.
What is Stage 4: Syllables and Affixes Spelling?
300
Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy Skills
What is DIBELS?
400
First, the activities should be appropriate for 5-6 year olds. Second, the instruction should be planned and purposeful not incidental. Third, phonemic awareness activities should be integrated with other components of a balance literacy program.
What are the three criteria Phonemic Awareness instruction should meet?
400
invented words, repetitive lines, rhyming words, songs and verse, sounds
What is Wordplay?
400
Teachers present minilessons on phonics concepts to the whole class to a small group of students, depending on their instructional needs.
What is Explicit Instruction?
400
Children string scribbles, letters and letter like forms together, but they don't associate the marks they make with any specific phonemes.
What is Emergent Spelling?
400
when two vowels represent a single sound
What is vowel digraph?
500
Segmenting a Word into Sounds, Blending Sound to Form Words, Identifying Sound in Words, Categorizing Sounds to Words
What are Phonemic Awareness Strategies?
500
DIBELS, PALS, TPA, Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation
What are assessment tools for Phonemic Awareness?
500
Two sound of c; Two sounds of g; CVC pattern, CV pattern
What are the most useful Phonics Rules?
500
Emergent Spelling, Letter Name-Alphabetic Spelling, Within-Word Pattern Spelling, Syllables and Affixes Spelling, Derivational Relations Spelling.
What are the Stages of Spelling Development?
500
a sound produced when the tongue glides from one sound to another; it's represented by two vowels examples: oy-boy; ow-how
What is a diphthong?
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