Phonological Awareness
This skill must be mastered first in order to become a good word decoder.
What is phonemic awareness?
These are the six types taught to help facilitate decoding of multisyllabic words.
What are syllable types?
These are the three main components of reading fluency.
What are accuracy, rate, and prosody?
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What is a closed syllable?
This type of assessment can quickly identify a student's phonics knowledge gaps.
What is a quick phonics screener?
The goal of this and decoding is to create readers who have great word recognition.
What is phonological awareness?
The six-syllable types are taught to help facilitate this phase.
What is the consolidated phase?
This fluency component refers to reading with expression and appropriate phrasing.
What is prosody?
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What is an open syllable followed by a VCe (vowel-consonant-e) syllable?
This skill should be the focus when a 1st grader names all letters but can't blend sounds to read simple words.
What is phonemic awareness, specifically blending?
This is stored in the "letter box" of the orthographic processor.
What are letters, shapes, and punctuation?
This advanced phonics skill involves studying the smallest units of meaning in words.
What is morphology?
Many struggling readers are below this percentage of accuracy.
What is 93%?
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What is an r-controlled syllable followed by a vowel team syllable?
Teaching students to break down words like "caterpillar" and "refrigerator" into smaller parts focuses on this skill.
What is decoding multisyllabic words?
These are the smallest units of sound in spoken language.
What are phonemes?
This phonics pattern involves two letters that produce one sound.
What is a digraph?
This type of reading practice involves reading the same text multiple times for different purposes.
What is repeated reading?
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What is a closed syllable followed by an r-controlled, followed by an open syllable?
This fluency-building strategy involves reading the same text multiple times with different purposes.
What are repeated readings?
This principle connects speech sounds to written symbols.
What is the alphabetic principle?
This is the study of word origin and history.
What is etymology?
This component of fluency refers to reading with expression, appropriate pitch and tempo, and pauses at the right places.
What is prosody?
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What is an open syllable, followed by a closed syllable, followed by an r-controlled syllable, followed by an open syllable, followed by a closed syllable, followed by an r-controlled syllable?
This skill, which is the reverse process of decoding, is improved when students practice phoneme-grapheme connections through activities like dictation.
What is encoding?