Knowledge about phoneme-grapheme correspondence and spelling rules.
What is phonics?
100
The written representation of a phoneme using one or more letters.
What is a grapheme?
100
A phonics lesson uses the words hat and sit to demonstrate this pattern.
What is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern?
100
Coined the term "emergent literacy".
Who is Marie Clay?
200
The one-to-one correspondence between phonemes and graphemes.
What the Alphabetic Principle?
200
Structure or grammar of a sentence
What is Syntax
200
Words with similar meanings.
What is a Synonym?
200
A child's basic understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
A useful tool for engaging students in self-reflection and goal setting.
What is using a portfolio?
300
The ug in snug.
What is a rime?
300
A morpheme that stands alone as a word such as cat, school, month.
What is a free morpheme?
300
Words that sound alike.
What is a homophone?
300
The teacher reads aloud as the class follows along with their own copies of the text.
What is shared reading?
300
When a child struggles with a skill such as spelling and takes action to make corrections from asking the teacher to using spell check on the computer.
What is displaying self-efficacy?
400
The sound system of English with approximately 44 sounds.
What is the Phonological System
400
The meaning system of English that focuses on vocabulary.
What is the Semantic System?
400
Words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins such as bat and bat.
What is a homograph?
400
Kindergartens dictate sentences about an activity and the teacher writes the sentences on chart paper; then everyone reads the sentences.
What is Language Experience Approach?
400
The theory which emphasis the use of all the six language arts to communicate, solve problems, and persuade others.
What is Critical Literacy?
500
Knowledge about the sound structures of words at the phoneme, onset-rime, and syllable levels.
What is Phonological Awareness?
500
The system of English that varies according to social and cultural uses.
What is the Pragmatic System?
500
Words that appear most often in language.
What is High-Frequency?
500
Phonological system, Syntactic system, Semantic system, and Pragmatic system used by beginning readers and writers.
What are the four language systems?
500
Goodman coined this term meaning teachers observe and assess students as they participate in language arts activities.