Readers are able to sound out words using letter-sound correspondences or phonics they know.
What is Full Alphabetic Phase?
100
Words that do not fit the targeted feature in a sort.
What are Oddball Sorts?
100
Beginning reading books written with controlled vocabulary that contain reoccurring phonics elements.
What are Phonics Readers?
100
Consonant units occurring at the end of words determined by the preceding vowel sound.
What are Complex Consonant Patterns?
200
Complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllable.
What are Diphthongs?
200
Readers use patterns, chunks, and other word parts to figure out unfamiliar words.
What is Consolidated Alphabetic Phase
200
Type of picture or word sort in which the categories for sorting are left open. Students sort pictures or words into groups according to the students own judgment.
What are Open Sorts?
200
The ability to consciously manipulate individual phonemes in a spoken language.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
200
word awareness
What is Word Consciousness?
300
Vowel sound represented by a variety of different spelling patterns, or vowel patterns that represent a wide range of sounds.
What are Ambiguous Vowels?
300
The fourth stage of spelling development which coincides with intermediate reading. Syllables and affixes spellers learn about the spelling changes that often take place at the point of transition from one syllable to the next.
What is the Syllables and Affixes Stage?
300
Picture or words sort done with a partner in which students who are responsible for sorting cannot see the word. They must instead attend to the sounds and sometimes visualize the spelling pattern to determine the category.
What are Blind Sorts?
300
Words that sound the same but have different spelling.
What are Homophones?
300
Level where individual works independently without need for instructional support; high degree of accuracy, speed, ease, and fluency.
What is Independent-Level?
400
In English, r colors the way the preceding vowel is pronounced.
What are R-Influenced or R-Controlled?
400
An individual’s stage of spelling development; emergent, letter name-alphabetic, within word pattern, syllables and affixes, or derivational rations.
What is Developmental Level?
400
A variant of a blind sort in which one student (or teacher) names a word without showing it without showing it to another student, who must write it in the correct category under a key word.
What are Blind Writing Sorts?
400
Words that share the same spelling but have different meanings.
What are Homonyms?
400
A level of academic engagement in which instruction is comfortably matched to what an individual is able to grasp. (zone of proximal development)
What is Instructional-Level?
500
English learners have trouble learning vowels because English has more of these than other languages.
What are Vowels?
500
2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students are within this stage.
What is the Within Word Pattern Stage?
500
A Closed Sort, which are word sorts based on predetermined categories, is also known as what?
What is a Teacher Directed Sort?
500
Give an example of a homonym:
What are park and park?
500
The second layer of English orthography in which patterns of letter sequences, rather than individual letters, represent vowel sounds.