Early Literacy
What is the name for the smallest unit of sound in speech. Letters represent these sounds.
Phoneme
When a word has the same rime as another word
Rhyming
Breaking a word into its individual sounds and reading it to make meaning is called
decoding
When supporting vocabulary development with students learning English it is important to provide these types of examples when possible.
Concrete, physical
The word "cat" represents this type of syllable
Closed.
What factor lies as the bedrock or foundation for literacy development? This is important to develop before all else.
Oral Language
When a student can put separate sounds together orally to create a word it is called...
Blending
Writing a word by using letters to represent sounds is called
Encoding
For students learning to read when English is not their first language, it is important that they have a strong foundation in this so it can be used to enhance and support instruction.
Their first language
When two vowels combine to make a new sound it is called a
Diphthong
What is the name for the written symbol that represents a sound?
Grapheme
When a student can break a word down into its individual sounds orally they are....
Segmenting
A phonics program that follows the standards and is based upon building skills in a specific sequence with direct instruction is considered this.
Systematic and explicit
Words in one language that are extremely similar to words in English are called
Cognates
When a student reads smoothly and does not have to stop and decode every word they are reading in this manner.
Fluently
What is the name for the smallest unit of meaning in our language?
Morpheme
One way to help students with phonemic awareness is to have them create new words by changing the first sound in a word. This is called
A student learning about prefixes and suffixes and using them to create new words with new meanings is learning
Morphology
When a teacher does this it supports all students in learning to read fluently.
Modeling
When a student is not successful with classroom instruction and needs additional review and support in addition to the classroom instruction they are receiving this type of support.
Tier 2
What is the term for the set of skills that are measured by noting the child knows how to hold a book, can identify where the words are on a page, understands that the print carries meaning, and knows what to do when text continues on to a second line?
Concepts of Print, Print Awareness
Phonemic awareness is often called "phonics in the dark". Why?
Phonemic awareness focuses on oral and auditory language as a foundation for phonics.
Many difficulties with learning to read and write are considered to be this type of learning disability.
Dyslexia
One way to support reading and understanding of text is to pre-teach this.
Vocabulary
Which one of these terms would likely be a tier one vocabulary word:
jump, extraordinary, plume
jump