Category 1
Matching grapheme to phoneme
What is Symbol to Sound
Student reads appropriate text with a predetermined number of words to be read within a specific amount of time
What is Timed Reading
Words that have similar meanings
What is Synonym
A means to enhance understanding of text
What is Strategy
Words that are specifically addressed, analyzed, and/or studied in curriculum lessons exercises, and independent activities
Target Words
A segment of a word that contains one vowel sound. The vowel may or may not be preceded and/or followed by a consonant.
What is Syllable
Reducing large selections of text to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
What is Summarizing
Refers to all of the words of our language. One must know words to communicate effectively.
The process of using strategies to figure out or decode unfamiliar words
What is Word Analysis/ Word Attack Strategies
Systematic phonics programs teach children an extensive, pre-specified set of letter-sound correspondences or phonograms
What is Systematic Phonics Instructions
Information that is accessed through visual means such as the size and shape of a word, format, pictures, diagrams, etc.
What is Visual Information
Various corresponding spelling patterns for a specific sound or a variety of spelling patterns for one sound.
What is Variant Correspondences
Two vowels together that represent one phoneme, or sound
An explanation of the words meaning rather than a definition (Characterizes the word and how it is typically used and explains the meaning in everyday language)
What is Student Friendly Explanation
Close, Open, Vowel consonant-e, Consonsant-l-e, R-controlled, Vowel pairs
What is Syllable Types
The pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases; the grammatical rules that govern language
What is Syntax
A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar to a builders blueprint for a house.
What is Systematic Information
A set of conventions that govern different kinds of texts such as characters, plot, settings, or in an informational text, comparison and contrast
What is Story/Text Structure
A book intended for general reading that is not a textbook
What is Trade Book
A procedure for teaching students to read words formed with prefixes, suffixes, or other meaningful word parts
Degree of usefulness
What is Utility
An affix attached to the end of a base, root, or stem that changes the meaning or grammatical function of the word
What is Suffix
A view of teaching writing as an ongoing process involving several steps such as: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
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