Phonology & Speech
Speech sounds in which the moving air is actively constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue, or teeth during articulation.
What is a consonant?
The shorthand code letter "V" is used to classify this type of syllable, which ends in a single, long vowel sound.
What is an open syllable?
The New York psychologist and teacher who collaborated with Dr. Orton in the 1930s to invent the non-traditional Orton-Gillingham approach.
Who was Anna Gillingham?
A multi-step, tiered framework used by schools to provide interventions at increasing levels of intensity to struggling students or whole classes.
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?
The broad, dual-sided ability to both successfully understand and express ideas using spoken language
What is oral language?
The precise study of speech sounds and how they interact and function within their specific spoken environments
What is phonology?
The shorthand code letters "VC" are used to classify this syllable type, which ends in one or more consonants and has a short vowel.
What is a closed syllable?
The pioneer who founded the "Whole Language" educational movement, arguing that reading is learned just as naturally as speaking
Who was Frank Smith?
A quick, frequent academic probe administered by teachers to make timely instructional changes based on student performance.
What is progress monitoring?
The passive side of oral language: listening, remembering, and accurately understanding what someone else is saying to you.
What is receptive language?
The single, separate sound units that function as the foundational signaling blocks of spoken words.
What is a phoneme?
The code abbreviation "V-e" represents this syllable type, which features a long vowel sound followed by a silent final letter.
What is a Vowel-Consonant-e syllable?
This prominent research duo championed Whole Language, pushing for "Drop Everything and Read" (DEAR) and evaluation through reading miscues.
Who are Kenneth and Yetta Goodman?
he process of testing an entire grade or school to rapidly identify which specific students are at risk of falling below grade standards.
What is universal screening?
The active side of oral language: organizing your thoughts and successfully uttering them out loud to convey meaning.
What is expressive language?
The broad linguistic understanding of the internal sound structure of words, including syllables, rhyming, and sounds.
What is phonological awareness?
The code abbreviation "Vr" represents this specific syllable type, where a vowel's sound is completely governed by an "r".
What is an r-controlled vowel syllable?
This researcher's fundamental work on reading established today's scientific consensus on exactly how reading works and what it does for the human mind.
Who is Keith Stanovich?
What the acronym "IMSLEC" stands for in the field of multisensory education.
What is the International Multisensory Structured Education Council?
The selective cognitive ability to focus strictly on what is currently important while successfully screening out background distractions
What is attention?
The specific, highly crucial sub-skill of phonological awareness that allows a person to segment words into separate, individual phonemes.
What is phonemic awareness?
The code abbreviation "VV" represents this syllable type, commonly referred to as a vowel team
What is a vowel team syllable?
The creator of a multi-sensory word-learning technique for learning words that involve the visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile modalities. (known as the Fernald Method)
Who was Grace Fernald?
This acronym stands for the federal agency that funds major, landmark scientific research regarding child health and literacy development.
What is the NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)?
The rapid, automatic naming of a randomized, repeating series of printed objects, colors, numbers, or letters
What is Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)?