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The sound of a door slamming or a bell ringing
What are natural sounds?
Similar vowel and consonant sounds (cake, lake)
What is rhyme?
The vowels and letters that come after the vowel
at in the word cat
What is a rime?
Breaking words apart into syllables
homework = home + work
cowboy = cow + boy
reading = read + ing
table = ta + ble
What is segmenting words?
The number of phonemes in the word sit
What is three?
/s/ /i/ /t/
Words we know to communicate effectively when listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What is vocabulary?
Words that start with the same sound (busy bees buzz)
What is alliteration?
The ability to read text easily, as one would speak, to allow the reader to concentrate on the meaning. Reading accurately and at a reasonable rate with comprehension.
What is fluency?
The individual sounds in words - there are 44 in the English language.
What is a phoneme?
The number of phonemes in the word ship
What is three?
/sh/ /i/ /p/
The letters of a written language
What is a grapheme?
The ability to tell when one word ends and another begins.
What is sentence segmentation?
The beginning consonant sound of a one-syllable word
/k/ in the word cat
What is an onset?
cat
/k/at
onsite-rime blending
The number of phonemes in the word ball
What is three?
/b/ /a/ /l/
The ability to segment, blend, and manipulate phonemes.
What is phonemic awareness?
This word, or part of a word, contains one vowel sound and can be vocalized with one opening of your mouth.
What is a syllable?
The smallest unit of meaning in our language
Here are two: cat / cats
Here are two: seen / unseen
What is a morpheme?
cat
/k/ and at
onset-rime segmenting
The number of phonemes in the word fox
What is four?
/f/ /o/ /k/ /s/
A continuum of skills:
Listening Skills*Rhyme & Alliteration*Sentence Segmentation*Syllable blending & Segmenting*Onset-rime blending and segmenting*Phoneme Blending, Segmentation, & Manipulation
What is phonological awareness?
Putting syllables together to form a word
home + work = homework
cow + boy = cowboy
read + ing = reading
ta + ble = table
What is blending syllables?
An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
What is morphological awareness?
The awareness of the individual sounds in words, the phonemes.
What is phonemic awareness?
Reading the words and learning about the smallest meaningful parts of words (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, root words), as well as spelling patterns. Teaching students that the squiggles on a page actually mean something and represent a sound or sounds.
What is phonics (decoding & word analysis)?