Study Group 1
An umbrella term that involves identifying and and manipulating individual units of language.
Phonological Awareness
A stop sign is an example of...
Environmental Print
What are examples of words with a CV pattern?
ma, pa, no etc.
What does morpheme mean? What are the different types of morphemes? What's the difference between the types?
Smallest unit of meaning in a word.
Bound and free morphemes
What is this syllable type?
o/pen, i/tem, e/vil
#3 When there is only one middle consonant, you only divide in front of it.
It is the short u sound and is only used when transcribing a word that is two or more syllables.
Concepts are clearly explained and skills are directly modeled.
the, and, at, laugh, said etc. are examples of...
High Frequency words
*unkind
*happiness
*sailing
un, ness, and ing
What is this syllable type?
a/ble, fum/ble, rub/ble
#4 Divide before the consonant before an "-le" syllable.
"oi" and "ou" - what are these?
Dipthong: a complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllable.
A phoneme/grapheme pairing
Sound-spelling
What are important elements of a word?
* a unit of meaning
* has a single syllable or combination of syllables
* may contain smaller units of meaning within the word
What is a suffix?
An affix attached to the end of a base word.
What is the exception for the syllable rule #3 When there is only one middle consonant, you only divide in front of it?
When the first syllable has an obvious short sound as in "cab/in", and "van/ish"
Trigraph vs. Digraph
Digraph: two letters that represent one sound
Trigraph: three letters that represent one sound
Encoding vs. Decoding
Encoding: translate words from speech to print
Decoding: translate words from print to speech
What is prosody and how does it relate to fluency?
Prosody is expression. When you understand text you can read it with expression and it helps you read more fluently
What is a cognate? Give an example.
Words in different languages that are derived from the same root.
In Spanish and English: restaurant/restaurante, impossible/imposible, capital/capital etc.
What is an exception to the syllable rule #4 Divide before the consonant before an "-le" syllable?
When the word has a -ckle. Such as in tick/le
Vowel teams vs. Dipthongs
Dipthongs: oi, ou - new sound
Vowel Teams: only one of the two sounds are heard
Synthetic Phonics vs. Analytic Phonics
Synthetic: begins with individual sounds and the blending of sounds to form words.
Analytic: Divides words into their elemental parts
What is repeated reading?
Student sits in a quiet location with the teacher and they read a text that is normally 50 to 200 words. They repeat it multiple times.
What is morphology and how does it relate to morphemes?
The study of the meaning of words. Morphemes are the units of meaning and morphology is where you learn what those meanings are.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Yes