Phonological Awareness
What are Phonemes?
Smallest unit of sound that can be used to make 1 word different from another.
Understanding the uses and nature of print?
Print Awareness
Multi-Sensory Learning?
Being taught by multiple senses: Auditory (hearing and speaking), Visual (seeing), Kinesthetic (movement and doing) at the same time.
Affixes?
An element placed at the beginning/end of a root, stem or word, or body of a word to modify its meaning.
Words that have the same 1st consonant sound?
A subset of phonological awareness when listeners are able to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes?
Phonemic Awareness
Written language in which symbols reflect the pronunciation of words?
Alphabetic Language
Visual Learner?
Someone who learns best by sight: pictures, graphs, tables, etc.).
Noun?
A person, place or thing.
Part of a letter pattern in a word that includes the vowel and consonants that follow?
Rime
What is the: The knowledge of sounds and syllables and the sound structure of words?
Phonological Awareness
Alphabetic Principle?
Words are made up of letters and letters represent sounds!
Students are starting to learn sound and symbol (letter) relationships?
Emerging Reader
A unit of language that can't be divided any more?
Morpheme!
Book-handling skills?
How to turn the pages, knows where the top and bottom of the page is, how to find front and back cover of a book!
Phonemic Segmentation?
Ability to break down words into individual sounds.
Phonics?
Way of teaching reading/writing by developing learners phonemic awareness-in order to teach correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns that represent them!
Student can name letters in the alphabet, knows most letter sounds, knows what a word is, and can recognize some words in text?
Beginning Reader!
Inflection?
a change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.
Prosody?
Patterns of rhythm and sound (how you read). Reading with expression.
Being able to identify a word when hearing parts of the word (phonemes or syllables) in isolation?
Phonemic Blending
A symbol representing a vocal sound?
Phonogram.
Maturing and Advanced Reader?
Readers above their classmates or grade level and are fluent independent readers.
The form of a word that suffixes and prefixes can be added to create new meaning?
Base Word!
Teacher clearly outlines goals for the student and gives clear explanation of the information?
Explicit Instruction.