I'm all Ears
Strong Foundations
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Patterns of Behavior
Whatchu gonna do?
100
The smallest units of speech.
What are phonemes?
100

The ability to say the name of a letter when the teacher points to it ("What is this letter called?").


What is letter naming?



100
The ability to make the correct association between the sounds and the symbols of the language.
What are Phonics?
100

The type of vowel that appears in CVC words.

What is a short vowel?
100
The sounds the short vowels make.
What are /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/?
200
The vowel sound and any consonant that follow (-at, -ing, etc.).
What is a rime?
200

The idea that letters have corresponding sounds that represent the spoken language.

What is the Alphabetic Principle?
200
An abundance of high-frequency words (often with irregular spellings) that should be taught to children as whole units without breaking the word down by phonics.
What are Sight Words?
200
Suffixes added to root words, such as -ed, -er, -est, -ing, -s.
What is an Inflected Ending?
200
Activity where words are compared and contrasted, allowing students to make associations between words based on their sameness and differences.
What is a Word Sort?
300
The opposite of segmentation. It is a learning technique that asks children to turn words with pauses in between each sound into fluid words (/b/ /a/ /t/ becomes "bat").
What is blending?
300
Elements of this concept are: (1) The relationship between spoken and written English and that print that carries meaning; (2) Recognizing letter, word, and sentence representation; (3) Directionality of print/ tracking of print; (4) Book-handling skills.
What are Concept of Print?
300
Two-letter combinations that make one sound (i.e. ph in phone, sh in share, oa in boat, ea in teach).
What are digraphs?
300
This spelling pattern allows the first vowel of the word to say its name (the long vowel sound) by having a silent vowel at the end of the word (i.e. huge, cone, kite, etc.).
What is a regular CVCe Word Pattern?
300

Stories with highly controlled vocabulary that reinforces learned sound-symbol relationships. They often simply contain previously taught sight words in addition to new vocabulary

What are decodable text?
400
The number of phonemes in the word "foxy."
What is 5?
400
The technique used to teach concepts about print by allowing children to dictate an experience to an adult, who records the account verbatim on paper.
What is the Language Experience Approach (LEA)?
400
Glided sounds made by such vowel combinations, such as oi in oil and oy in boy.
What are dipthongs?
400
This spelling pattern contains long vowel diagraphs (bait, paid, rain, etc.).
What is the CVVC Word Pattern?
400
The term used for the instructional range where teachers are scaffolding instruction to build upon students strengths while challenging them to grow.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
500

The opposite of blending. The learning task in which children are challenged to isolate and identify the sounds in a spoken word.

What is segmentation?

500
Strategy to build Concepts About Print where a big book is used in a whole group setting.
What is Shared Reading?
500
Vowel sounds that are neither long nor short, directly before an r or l (i.e. a in car, e in her, i in girl, u in hurt, o in for, a in chalk, e in help, i in milk, o in cold, u in bull).
What are R-Controlled and L-Controlled Vowels?
500
These words end with a consonant blend, such as in the words list, cost, film, etc.
What is the CVCC Word Pattern?
500
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