Begininning and Ending Sound Strategies
Vocabulary
Word Recognition
100
It is located at the beginning and ending of words.
What is the location of the greatest letter-sound regularity in written words?
100
The smallest pronounceable unit in a spoken word.
What is a phoneme?
100
1. Knowing letters 2. Developing phonemic awareness
What are two significant predictors for beginning reading success?
200
Rhyming concept.
What must students break away from in order to focus on the beginning and final sounds in words?
200
A pronounceable unit larger than a phoneme.
What is a syllable?
200
Word recognition.
What is a necessary prerequisite for understanding what you are reading?
300
Beginning, ending, rhyming, same, different, sounds, and rhyme
What must teachers carefully explain with much "thinking out loud" to help students attend to sound features in words?
300
Consonants that appear before a vowel in a syllable.
What is an onset?
300
1. Phonics 2. Spelling 3. Site vocabulary
What three aspects of word recognition are particularly important at the emergent literacy stage?
400
1. By syllable 2. By onset and rime 3. By individual phonemes
What are the three important aspects of sound blending for students to develop?
400
The vowel and subsequent consonant in a syllable.
What is rime?
400
Strategies that a teacher employs to help students decode words or to recognize them.
What is the definition of phonics instruction?
M
e
n
u