Phonics Instruction
Also referred to as the “word family approach,” this teaches students to look for parts of a word to help them be able to read it.
Analogy Phonics
This diacritical marking over a vowel indicates to use the vowel’s short sound.
Breve
These words follow a pattern of being one syllable and having a short vowel sound
CVC Words
This type of word, when assembled, results in the "e" at the end of the word becoming silent and makes the prior vowel make its long sound.
CVCe Words
One’s ability to associate letters with sounds and use those sounds to form new words.
Alphabetic Principle
The smallest unit of sound in a language, can change a word’s meaning.
Phoneme
Words that have these types of short endings do not modify the part of speech of the word itself, but do change the word's tense, comparison, or number.
Inflectional Suffixes
In phonics, these pairs of letters make a single, unique phoneme when read together.
Digraph
An unreliable approach where less fluent readers mask their inability to decode and determine words and their meaning by using pictures and words in combination.
Three-Cueing
This diacritical over a vowel indicates to use the vowel’s long sound.
Macron
When sounding these types of two-syllable words apart, they split in the middle between two consonants.
VCCV Words
The ability to identify and manipulate the spoken parts of words or sentences.
Phonological Awareness
This method teaches students phonics, but using real text materials for reading and writing, as opposed to as a separate, isolated skill
Embedded Phonics
The smallest unit of meaning in a word. Also referred to as word parts.
Morpheme
These endings, when attached to a word, can change the part of speech (verb to adjective), or significantly change the meaning of the word itself.
Derivational Suffix
The ability to identify, isolate, blend, and segment individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words.
Phonemic Awareness
This method has students examine a set of words, beginning the most familiar, and they then look for a common sound included in those words. They begin with whole words and break them into parts, gradually creating meaning from texts.
Analytic Phonics
A letter or written symbol that represents a sound.
Grapheme
This type of words, when followed by an "r" in the same syllable, alters the sound of the prior vowel to no longer make its short or long sound, but instead results in a new combination of sounds.
R-Controlled Vowels (also "bossy r" is acceptable)
These two-syllable words follow a pattern of making either a long sound or a short sound, due to the placement of vowels.
VCV Words