Phonemic Awareness
The smallest unit of sound?
What is a phoneme?
Two consonants together that keep their sounds.
What is a blend?
The tier of vocabulary words you want to pull out to explicitly teach.
What are tier 2 vocabulary words?
Fluency bridges word recognition to _____.
What is comprehension?
A unit of speech sound
organized around a vowel
What is a syllable?
Understanding how symbols represent sounds.
What is the alphabetic principle?
Two letters together that make a unique sound. Ch and th are these.
What is a digraph?
On Dale's Level of Word Knowledge, the level where you can explain what the word means.
What is level 4?
How words are put together to form sentences. (sentence structure)
What is syntax?
What is six?
One you only use sounds and the other you connect sounds to letters.
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?
When two vowels work together to
make one single vowel sound (phoneme).
What is a vowel team?
The umbrella term over prefixes and suffixes.
What are affixes?
How informational text is organized to help readers identify key information. Hint: compare/ contrast is one of these.
What is text structure?
A syllable that ends in a vowel and the vowel sound it long.
What is an open syllable?
The umbrella term over phonemic awareness, rhyming, syllables, alliteration, onset-rime and word awareness?
What is Phonological Awareness?
The most common
vowel sound in English. It
sounds like a short u or short i.
What is the schwa?
Using the text around a word to determine it's meaning.
What are context clues?
Reading together at the same time.
What is choral reading?
The pattern where you break a syllable between two consonants.
What is the VCCV pattern?
The consonants that come before the vowel in a word.
What is an onset?
A vowel sound made
by gliding from one vowel sound to
another within the same syllable. An example is /oy/ in "boy."
What is a diphthong?
The smallest unit of meaning.
What is a morpheme?
The 3 components of fluency.
What are rate, accuracy and prosody?
A syllable pattern that only comes at the end of a multisyllabic word?
What is consonant -le?