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 graphic organizer for story structure/elements.
What is a story map?
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?
When you read the same text again.
What is repeated reading?
The structure of a sentence.
What is syntax?
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?
What the 3 words ORF stands for.
What is Oral Reading Fluency?
How informational text is organized to help readers identify key information. Hint: compare/ contrast is one of these.
What is text structure?
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 3 words QAR stands for.
What is Question- Answer Relationships?
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 system to measure how difficult a piece of writing is.
What are lexile levels?