Phonemic Awareness
The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally
What is phonemic awareness?
The relationship between the sounds of speech and the spelling system
What is phonics?
A story dictated to the teacher about a shared experience.
What is a Language Experience Approach?
When a student reads quickly, accurately and with expression.
What is fluency?
When students compare two or more books.
What is a test-to-text connection?
The smallest unit of sound in spoken language
What is a phoneme?
The language origin of words
What is Etymology?
The words that are frequently used in the different subjects taught in school.
What is Academic vocabulary?
Reading with appropriate phrasing and intonation.
What is prosody?
When readers pick out the big ideas, sequence details, and identify explicitly stated reasons.
What is literal comprehension?
A tool used to segment sounds in a word
What are Elkonin Boxes?
Children's attempts to spell words that reflect their developmental knowledge of the spelling system.
What is inventive spelling?
An alphabetized chart posted in the classroom of words students are learning.
What is a word wall?
Recognizing familiar words without conscious thought and identifying unfamiliar words almost as quickly.
What is automaticity?
When students make meaning of the text by taking on different roles while reading in book clubs. This could include summarizing, predicting, questioning, and clarifying.
What is reciprocal teaching?
A written representation of a sound
What is a grapheme?
A strategic approach by students to think about a word prior to spelling it.
What is a think it out approach?
The words and sentences that surround a new word that help the student find the meaning of the new word.
What are context clues?
When students practice reading story scripts to develop reading speed and expressiveness in front of peers.
What is readers theatre?
Teaching explicit instruction about literacy procedures, concepts, strategies, and skills in small groups or whole class.
What is a mini lesson?
Theory that each sound has a corresponding letter
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
The most common frequently occurring words used in both reading and writing.
What are high frequency words?
A strategy a teacher uses involving the context clues and other word-identification strategies and talks about the words after reading.
What are think-alouds?
When students chunk words into groups as they read and apply stress and intonation appropriately.
What is phrasing?
A problem solving behavior that students use in reading and writing such as predicting, monitoring, visualizing and summarizing.
What is a strategy?