Vocabulary
"tics" and "systems"
Reading
Beginning Readers
Other
100
44 to 48 Sounds of the English Language
What are phonemes?
100
Grammar, putting words into sentences that make sense.
What is syntactic?
100
Is a holistic process.
What is reading?
100
To think about your own thinking
What is meta cognition?
100
Groups of words that have the same, or very similar, meanings.
What are synonyms?
200
Correspondence of phonemes (sounds) to letters
What are graphemes?
200
Underlying meaning, learning about small units of sound that add different meanings to a word.
What is semantic?
200
Reading process and reading product.
What are two basic parts of reading?
200
Having children point to words as they read or are being read.
What is tracking?
200
A pair of words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
300
The smallest unit of meaning in English words
What is a morpheme?
300
Through literature and topic reading focuses children’s attention on meaning of words-multiple meaning of words, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms.
What are semantic systems?
300
Going through necessary steps to crack the code and construct meaning form what the author said.
What is the reading process?
300
Are words that need to be recognized quickly and can’t be sounded out.
What is sight vocabulary?
300
A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable such as cl, st, or br
What are blends?
400
Only 26 different letter symbols
What is printed English?
400
Address the social and cultural functions of language.
What is pragmatic?
400
Is the reader’s transaction with the writer’s printed ideas.
What is the reading product?
400
In the surrounding information in the sentence that helps in supporting what the word may be. The use of descriptions, definition in text, comparison or contrast, and use of synonyms’ and antonyms.
What is context clues?
400
A single sound made up of 2 vowel sounds in immediate sequence and pronounced in 1 syllable. ex: oil/ oi or toy/ oy
What are dipthongs?
500
Is the visual sound features of the words.
What is graphophonic information?
500
Is supported by showing children how different forms of language are appropriate for different solutions. (Such as playground language as opposed to a formal speech).
What are pragmatics systems?
500
Because reading is being constructed in the mind of the reader.
Why is reading a constructive process?
500
1. Using letter-sound relationships 2. Acquire a sight vocabulary of needed words 3. Gaining meaning from context
What are skills needed by beginning readers?
500
Two letters that stand for a single phoneme or sound. Examples: shout /sh/, what /wh/ rang /ng/
What are digraphs?
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