A basic unit of speech.
What is a phoneme?
The ability to break sentences into words, words into syllables and syllables into phonemes
What is segmenting?
understanding that words convey thoughts, words are made of letters and spaces appear between words.
What is Print awareness?
describes the ability to understand that oral language is made up of smaller sounds such as words and syllables.
What is phonological awareness?
the ability to sequence sounds together to form words.
What is blending?
holding a book upright, being able to identify the cover and back, identifying the title, beginning,middle and end of a book.
What are book handling skills.
contributes greatly to a student's ability to read, write and comprehend.
What is phonological and phonemic awareness?
when a sound is omitted, the rest of the word and/or sounds remain.
What is deletion?
Deals only with the phoneme, the most basic speech sound.
What is phonemic awareness?
changing a sound or combination of sounds in a word to create a new word.
What is substitution?
the backbone of reading skills.
what are reading skills?