Word Recognition
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
What is phonics?
The conscious awareness of individual speech sounds in spoken syllables and the ability to manipulate those sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
A universal assessment given to all students.
What is a screener?
A letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning, or make a new word.
What is a prefix?
The theoretical model that demonstrates the product of word recognition and language comprehension.
What is Simple View of Reading?
Closed, open, Vowel-Consonant e, Vowel Team, Vowel r, Final Stable Syllable
What are the 6 syllable types?
The repetition of initial sounds in two or more words or syllables.
What is alliteration?
A tool teachers can use to collect information about a student's strengths and weaknesses in a skill area.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change the meaning, or make a new word.
What is a suffix?
The system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences.
What is syntax?
A student's bank of words that are instantly and effortlessly recognized.
What are sight words?
The natural division of a syllable into two parts. The first part is before the vowel. The second part is the vowel and what follows after it.
What is onset-rime?
Makes sense of scores in norm referenced testing.
What is Bell Curve?
What is a base word?
The meaning of words and the relationship among words as they are used to represent knowledge of the world.
What are semantics?
Units of speech organized around a vowel sound.
What is syllable?
A disability caused by deficits in phonological awareness, working memory, and rapid atomized naming.
What is dyslexia?
A test that has specific rules for administration and scoring that must be followed if the obtained scores are to be meaningful.
What are standardized tests?
Layer of language (historical) that is characterized by short one syllable words which are used for common everyday things.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
A word in one language that shares a common ancestor and common meaning with a word in another language.
What is cognate?
A letter or group of letters representing the a sound.
What is a grapheme?
The smallest unit of sound.
What is phoneme?
A(n)_____________________ is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
What is an intelligence quotient?
Occurs when phonemes are spoken together to produce syllables or words and the features of these phonemes are affected by the speech sounds that proceed or follow them.
What is coarticulation?
A mental model or conceptual framework for a specific topic or idea.
What is schema?