Phonological Awareness
The ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in spoken language.
What is phonological awareness?
The relationship between written letters and spoken sounds.
What is phonics?
Students in this phase guess words based on visual cues.
What is the pre-alphabetic phase?
Knowing the sounds for letters like b, m, and s is what type of data?
What is letter-sound knowledge?
The first step when analyzing assessment results is identifying what?
What is a pattern?
Which skill involves breaking a word like cat into /k/ /a/ /t/?
What is phoneme segmentation?
Reading a word by saying each sound and blending them together is called what?
What is decoding?
Students rely on the first or last letter of words.
What is the partial alphabetic phase?
Reading made-up words like lat or bim measures what skill?
What is decoding?
In diagnostic reading analysis, teachers move from identifying patterns to identifying what?
What the underlying skill breakdown is?
If a student cannot blend /m/ /a/ /p/ into a word, which skill may be weak?
What is phoneme blending?
What type of instruction explicitly teaches letter-sound relationships?
What is systematic phonics instruction?
Students decode words sound-by-sound.
What is the full alphabetic phase?
Real word reading measures decoding plus what additional factor?
What is memory / stored word knowledge?
After identifying the skill breakdown, teachers determine the developmental stage on which infamous trajectory?
What is Ehri's phases of reading development?
Why is phonological awareness important for reading?
What is...that it helps students map sounds to letters when decoding words.
If a student reads tap for tape, what phonics pattern may be confusing?
What is silent e / CVCe pattern?
Students recognize chunks, blends, and rimes.
What is the consolidated alphabetic phase?
Looking at the types of mistakes students make during reading is called analyzing what?
What are error patterns?
The final step of diagnostic thinking is deciding what?
What instruction matches the student’s need?
Is phonological awareness focused on spoken language or written language?
What is spoken language?
What cognitive process allows readers to permanently store written words for fast recognition?
What is orthographic mapping?
Why do teachers analyze phonics assessments using Ehri’s phases?
To determine a student’s developmental stage of word reading.
Why are nonsense words useful in phonics assessments?
What is.. that they measure pure decoding skill without relying on memory?
Diagnostic thinking helps teachers move from ______ to ______.
What is assessment to instruction?