Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
The smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme.
Grapheme
The 3 main elements of fluency.
Accuracy, Rate, and Prosody.
Prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings.
Affixes
An assessment in the orientation or layout of text.
Concepts of Print
What are the 5 Pillars of Literacy
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension
The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between the sounds of spoken language and graphemes.
Phonics
The overall "smoothness" of the reading which includes phrasing, expression, and intonation.
Prosody
A simple word from which you can build a family of words around it.
Base Word
An assessment used to determine a child's speed and accuracy in reading text.
Running Record
These assessments are not data driven, but rather content and performance driven.
Informal Assessments
Children recognize individual sounds in a word.
Phoneme Isolation
The speed with which a text is read.
Rate
Refers to Greek or Latin origins of a word.
Root Word
An assessment made through a collection of student work.
Portfolio Assessment
An assessment that uses data to support the conclusions. These assessments are usually referred to as standardized measures.
Norm-Referenced Assessment
Two or more consonants that make one sound.
Consonant Digraphs
The percentage of words read correctly allowing for self-corrections.
Accuracy
Parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger than phonemes.
Onset and Rime
An Assessment Used to Determine a Student's use of Context and Vocabulary Knowledge.
Cloze
Phonemes that are represented by letters and letter pairs.
Alphabetic Principle
An ability to break a word into its separate sounds.
Phoneme Segmentation
Words that cannot be decoded following phonics generalizations.
Sight Words
A meaningful unit of a language that cannot be further divided.
Morpheme
A compilation of graded reading selections with accompanying comprehension questions.
Informal Reading Inventories
A broad term that includes phonological awareness, rhyming, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
Phonological Awareness