Vocabulary
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100

What are the letters a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y?

A vowel

100

A student knows they have to capitalize their name, what skill are they showing?

They're letter knowledge

100

Decode this word: Ship

/Sh/ /i/ /p/ 

200

The smallest unit of sound in spoken language that makes a difference in communication

Phoneme

200

A student understands punctuation and the direction in which text should be written and read. What skill are they using. 

Concepts of print

200

identify the rime: Slug

Ug

300

What is the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes in a spoken word? 

Phonemic awareness

300

A student reads a difficult word they have never read before. They split the word up into phonemes and sounded it out by blending the words. What skill are they using?

Decoding

300

Split this word up by phonemes: Write

/Wr/ /i/ /te/

400

What is the awareness that oral language is composed of smaller units, such as spoken words and syllables? 

Phonological Awareness

400

A student understands that the letter 'r' affects the sound of the vowel(s) that come before it. They know that shirt, clerk, and sharp all make different sounds because of the letter 'r'. What skill are they using? 

They're understanding of r-controlled vowels

400

Identify the onset: plant

Pl

500

What is the understanding that letters represent the sounds of spoken language [phonemes] and that phonemes have a predictable, systematic relationship to letters and letter combinations?

Alphabetic Principle

500

A student hears their parent say a word but doesn't quite know how to write it out. They focus on the individual phonemes and sounds they heard to write down the word. After sounding it out they say it out loud. What skill are they using?

Encoding

500

What are some orthographic patterns?

'-ight' '-tion' 'ai' 

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