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100
Words that appear to be recognized and pronounced on sight, 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
The division of words into smaller units or chunks. Students may clap them or count the beats.
What is syllabication?
100
This serves as a reference for confirming and studying meanings, pronunciations, and spellings of words.
What is a dictionary?
100
Students learn that the words are read from the left to the right of the page.
What is right to left directionality?
200
Word walls, signs, labels and other words students encounter throughout the day.
What is environmental print?
200
A large book (18 x 24 inches) used to show preschool/kindergarten students the printed words in the story.
What is a big book?
200
The end of a word beginning with a vowel sound. Examples: -am, -in, -on, -at, -ed, -it
What is a rime?
200
This mark indicates a long vowel sound.
What is a macron?
200
Phonemes
What is the smallest unit of sound?
300
To think about your own thinking
What is metacognition?
300
Using a pointer or an index finger to follow the words in a sentence as you are reading a text.
What is tracking?
300
The first part of a one syllable word beginning with a consonant sound.
What is an onset?
300
A method of teaching reading whereby students analyze written words, matching letters or word parts to the sounds in spoken language.
What is phonics?
300
Two words that have the opposite meaning. Example: female; male hot; cold
What are an antonyms?
400
Teacher uses this strategy to model the cognitive processes that occur during reading.
What is a think aloud?
400
Using the positions and grammatical roles that words hold in a sentence, helping the reader figure out the word's meaning.
What are syntactic clues?
400
Demonstrating how to perform a task before asking students to do it.
What is modeling?
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
A framework, or background knowledge, consisting of all the experiences, emotions and readings that students have encountered about the topic.
What is schema?
500
Using meanings of the other words in a sentence or paragraph to deduce the meaning of unknown words.
What are semantic clues?
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, pier, manor, butter
What is r-controlled?
500
Grapheme
What is the written form of the smallest unit of sound?
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