An approach to reading instruction in which the students dictate stories to the teacher who writes them down using the students' own language
What is Language Experience Approach?
The ability to match spoken words to written words
What is Concept of Words?
The part of a syllable that comes before the vowel
What is Onset?
To combine the sounds represented by letters to pronounce a word
What is Blend?
The concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in the spoken word; insight into this principle is critical for learning to read and spell
What is Alphabetic Principle?
What is Environmental Print
Books that are written with rhyme, repetition, and rhythm
What is Predictable Text?
A strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to recognize each sound
What is Elkonin Boxes?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words
What is Alliteration?
The way sounds are formed in the mouth
What is Articulation?
Children's early reading and writing development before conventional reading and writing instruction
What is Emergent?
The teacher or another reader reads a sentence, and a group of students reread what was read
What is Echo Reading?
A speech sound that combines with others in a language system to make words
What is Phoneme?
Recurring final sounds
What is Rhyming?
Mark shaped like a smile that's placed over a vowel to indicate that it represents a short sound
What is Breve?
Enlarged versions of picture books that teachers read with children, usually in the primary grades
What is Big Books?
A pattern of recurring emphasis in spoken or written words
What is Rhythm?
What is Phonemic Awareness?
An awareness of various speech sounds such as syllables, rhyme, and individual phonemes
What is Phonological Awareness?
Syllable with a short vowel spelled with a single vowel to indicate that it represents a short sound
What is Closed Syllable?
Stories with many details added and a repetition of parts
What is Cumulative Stories?
Teachers and students read together
Choral Reading
The part of a syllable that begins with the vowel
To pronounce a word slowly, saying each sound distinctly
What is Segment?
Consonant units occurring at the end of words determined by the preceding vowel sound
What is Complex Consonants?