Vocab
Umbrella term that includes hearing and manipulating larger parts of language (words, syllables)
What is phonological awareness?
The ability to identify how many syllables (or parts) there are in a word
What is segmenting syllables?
The addition of phonemes to a given word to produce a new word
What is adding phonemes?
Words that are made up of a consonant, vowel and consonant sound
What are CVC words?
Identification of the last sound in a word
What is identifying final phonemes?
Hearing and manipulating phonemes (individual speech sounds, can be done with eyes closed)
What is phonemic awareness?
The division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing
What is syllabication?
The ability to replace a phoneme in a word with another phoneme to form a new word
What is substituting phonemes?
Groups of words that have a common feature, pattern or meaning
What are word families?
Identification of the sounds found in the middle of a word
What is identifying medial phonemes?
The idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language.
What is the alphabetic principle?
Way of segmenting words into any consonants before a vowel in a spoken syllable & the following vowel and consonants after it
What is onset-rime?
The understanding that print carries meaning, that books contain letters and words
What are concepts of print?
The print of everyday life
What is environmental print?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
A direct and structured way of teaching
What is explicit instruction?
Identifying the individual sounds (phonemes) in a word
What is segmenting phonemes?
The concept that print is written and read from left to right
What is print directionality?
Textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren
What are basal readers?
The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words
What is decoding phonics?
The act of pulling together individual sounds/syllables into the entire word
What is blending syllables?
Having students manipulate spoken words by deleting specific phonemes
What is deleting phonemes?
Knowing that the same letter can look different, that letters have names and are related to sounds
What is letter knowledge?
The stage during which children learn the crucial skills that lead to writing and reading
What is emergent literacy?
A whole-group instructional context in which you read a selected text to the whole class, occasionally and selectively pausing for conversation
What are interactive read-alouds?