Definitions
Morpheme
What is the stage where children start to learn that letters represent sounds?
Letter name-alphabetic stage
What are "'two vowels placed together in a word that produce a single glided sound'"?
Vowel Diphthongs
What is one type of informal phonics assessment that can be used to assess students progress?
checklists, surveys, Scholastic Phonics Inventory, informal reading inventories
Is English a deep orthography or shallow orthography?
Deep Orthography
What is "two letters that represent one sound"?
Digraph
In the syllable and affixes stage you should teach students that a closed syllable has what type of vowel sound?
Short vowel sound
What is a consonant cluster?
"Two connecting consonants that make a unique sound"
In a spelling inventory, how is a students spelling stage determined?
How many words they can spell correctly
What is the fastest growing minority group in the United States and U.S classrooms?
Spanish Speakers
What is "the part of a word that precedes the vowel"?
Onset
"Sharing alphabet books and naming objects" is a strategy for what stage?
Emergent Stage
When is the letter Y used as a vowel?
"When it appears at the end of a syllable or word"
How can checklists help a teacher to form instructional groups?
Help teachers find groups of students with similar needs
What do students with dyslexia struggle with in relation to spelling?
Letter sound relationships and hearing phonemes within words
What is a "vowel sound that is articulated with the tongue in a neutral position"?
Schwa
In the within-word pattern stage what are some of the different word patterns that students learn about?
CVC, CVVC, CVCE
How many different phonemes do the vowels a,e,i,o, and u represent?
19
What can nonsense words help teachers to assess?
What the student knows about sounds and how sounds blend together
What is one similarity between the English and Spanish Language?
"one phoneme can be represented by more than one letter", "one letter can have more than one sound", "there are vowel sounds common to both english and Spanish"
What are the four types of sounds that each vowel has?
Long sound, short sound, schwa sound, and r controlled vowel sound
In what stage do students become aware that words change when they become different parts of speech?
Derivational relations stage
What is a strategy that teachers can use to help students struggling with correct pronunciation?
Demonstrating the position of the mouth and tongue
Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI)
When working with students with dyslexia, what should teachers stress?
"The predictability of the letter sound relationship"