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Combinations of two or three consonants; each one is pronounced
What is Consonant Blend?
Text in which a high proportion comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught
What is Decodable text?
Sound-Symbol relationships
What is Graphophonemic?
A syllable ending with a long vowel sound that is spelled with a single vowel letter
What is Open Syllable?
A word that is recognized instantly without the reader having to sound it out; it may be regular or irregular
What is Sight Word?
Another term for consonant blend
What is Consonant Cluster?
What is Decoding?
Words that make up roughly 50% of any text- those that occur most often
What is High Frequency Word?
The writing system of a language
What is Orthography?
The rules and patterns by which letters and letter combinations represent speech sounds
What is Sound-Symbol Correspondence?
A consonant letter combination that represents one speech sound that is not represented by one sound alone
What is Consonant Diagraph?
The sound produced by one vowel gliding into another
What is Diphthong
Teacher and student writing a message together
What is Interactive Writing?
The matching of phonemes in words with the graphemes that represent them
What is Phoneme- Grapheme Mapping?
The unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel
What is Syllable?
The shortening of a phrase by omitting one or more letters
What is Contraction?
Producing written symbols for spoken language; also, spelling by sounding out
What is Encoding?
A word whose spelling or pronunciation does not conform to the system of sound-symbol correspondence or syllable patterns
What is Irregular Words?
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used as a descriptor for code-based instruction
A three-letter combination that represents one phoneme
What is Trigraph?
Spelling that is in the standard or correct format for written documents
What is Conventional Spelling?
A written expression of a sound using one or more letters
What is Grapheme?
A horizontal mark that is placed over a vowel to indicate that it represents a long vowel sound
What is Macron?
When vowels are followed by an "r" it affects the way they are pronounced
What is R Controlled Vowel?
A combination of two, three, or four letters that stand for a vowel
What is Vowel Team?