Coding
A combination of 44 sounds represented by spoken and written letters.
What is the English language?
An awareness of the sounds in spoken words, as well as the ability to manipulate those sounds.
What is phonological awareness?
A way to teach in a direct, structured way.
What is explicit instruction?
Acronym for meeting initial needs in literacy.
What is InitiaLit?
The set of correspondences that exist between the most basic sounds of English (called phonemes) and the letters that symbolize those basic sounds (called graphemes).
What is the alphabetic code?
The knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply that knowledge in decoding unfamiliar printed words.
What is phonics?
The relationship between written letters (graphemes) and speech sounds (phonemes) taught explicitly in a predetermined order.
What is synthetic phonics?
Words which cannot be sounded out easily and are recalled using visual memory and morphology.
What are tricky words?
An early reading skill that requires readers to associate letters with sounds, blend the sounds together, and determine what word is represented by a string of letters.
What is decoding?
The smallest unit of speech (sound) distinguishing one word (or word element) from another.
What is a phoneme?
Regular assessment following a series of lessons to determine if a student is able to progress to the next set of lessons.
What is Progress Monitoring?
Two letters that represent one sound.
What is a digraph?
Taking a word, hearing the parts of it, and writing or spelling it
What is encoding?
The set of units of a writing system (such as letters and letter combinations) that represent a phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
A simple measure of reading performance for younger readers (Foundation and Year 1). Using the 50-word lists provided, teachers can assess a student’s level of oral reading fluency and compare this to benchmarks in just one minute.
What is the WARN (Wheldall Assessment of Reading Nonwords)?
Three letters that represent one sound.
What is a trigraph?
A strategy that helps you to memorise something specific, like how to spell a word.
What is mnemonics?
The study of words and their parts such as prefixes, suffixes and base words and are defined as the smallest meaningful units of meaning.
What is a morpheme?
A body of scientific evidence into reading acquisition that determined five critical areas that should be taught; phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
What is the National Enquiry into the Teaching of Literacy?
Use Model, Lead, Test to correct errors.