Words that appear to be recognized and pronounced without any conscious application of decoding or word analysis strategies.
What are sight words?
100
The smallest unit of meaning in a word.
What is a morpheme?
100
Breaking words into smaller units.
What is structural analysis or chunking?
100
This serves as a reference for confirming and studying meanings, pronunciations, and spellings of words.
What is a dictionary?
100
Developmental spelling
What is spelling patterns children use in uncorrected writing?
200
Word walls, and other words students encounter throughout the day.
What is environmental print?
200
A single morpheme that can stand alone.
What is a free morpheme?
200
A word divided up after the first vowel consonant and before the second consonant vowel combination.
What is the VC/CV syllabication generalization?
200
This mark indicates a long or short vowel sound or indicates stress or accent.
What is a diacritical mark?
200
Two consonants that represent one phoneme, which is different from the sounds the individual consonants usually make.
What is a consonant digraph?
300
High frequency words
What are the 400 words that make up about 70% of writing?
300
A morpheme that is meaning bearing, but cannot stand alone.
Example: "s" in cats. (Has a meaning - plural, but can't stand alone)
What is a bound morpheme?
300
A word that is divided up after the first vowel, and before the first consonant vowel combination.
What is the V/CV syllabication generalization?
300
Syllables in a word that are emphasized.
What is accented?
300
Two words that have the opposite meaning.
Example: female; male
hot; cold
What are an antonyms?
400
The most common vowel sound in English. It sounds like a /u/ sound.
What is the schwa?
400
Often changes the grammatical function, but not the core meaning of the root word to which it is added.
Example: cat to cats or walk to walked
What are inflectional endings?
400
A word that is divided up after the first vowel consonant and before the second vowel.
What is the VC/V syllabication generalization?
400
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning.
Example: Bliss - Happiness
Mad - Angry
What is a synonym?
400
Two words having the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Example: Too; two; to
Their, there
What is a homophone?
500
Two consonant letters that stand for a single phoneme.
What is a consonant blend?
500
The new word has a new meaning, and is usually a different part of speech.
god - goddess
self - selfless
What are derivational endings?
500
A prefix or suffix.
What is an affix?
500
When a vowel is followed by an r, it makes a special sound.
Example: ar, ir, or, er
car, guitar, care, pier, manor, butter
What is r-controlled?
500
A phase in developmental spelling where children use writing to communicate meaning, but words are often represented only by the initial letter sound. More consonants than vowels appear.