The specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. One of the best predictors of how well children will learn to read in English during the first two years of school instruction.
What is phonemic awareness?
100
Palabras que tienen semejanza en su escritura y su significado respecto a otras palabras de otro idioma, en este caso el español y inglés.
¿Qué son cognados?
100
The smallest meaningful part of a word.
What is a morpheme?
100
Reading cueing system that utilizes background knowledge, word meanings, words in context. Asks the question, "Does it make sense?"
What is meaning (semantic)?
100
A word opposite in meaning to another (e.g., bad and good).
What are antonyms?
200
A broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language – parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes.
What is phonological awareness?
200
Ejemplos son: Flor – florero-florería y Libro-librería – librero
¿Qué son familias de palabras?
200
-ment, -ity, and -tion turn words into nouns; -ful, -ous, and -al turn words into adjectives; -ly turns words into adverbs.
What are (derivational) suffixes?
200
Reading cueing system that utilizes grammar rules, knowledge of the language, order and relationship of
words. Asks the question, "Does it sound right?"
What is structure (syntactic)?
200
Words that are wholly decodable on the basis of the letter-sound and spelling-sound correspondences already taught.
What are decodable words?
300
A letter or letter combination that corresponds to one speech sound.
What is a grapheme?
300
Use songs, tongue twisters, riddles, movies, and reading or listening to audiobooks to help the development of this skill.
What is oracy (listening and speaking)?
300
A morpheme attached to the beginning of a root word.
What is a prefix?
300
Reading cueing system that utilizes letter/sound correspondence, word parts, and concepts about print. Asks the question, "Does it look right?"
What is visual (grapho-phonic)?
300
(1) Words that are taught as whole units because they are irregularly spelled or because the spelling-sound correspondences have not yet been taught (2) Regularly spelled words that have been decoded enough times that they are recognized on sight, that is with little conscious effort
What are sight words?
400
An example is:
/s/ /ay/ say
/ou/ /t/ out
/sh/ /ar/ /k/ shark
/p/ /o/ /s/ /t/ post
What is (phoneme) blending?
400
Ejemplos son: ola/hola; a ver/haber; hacer/ a ser
¿Qué son homófonos?
400
Examples are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases.
What are parts of speech?
400
Effective readers use all the cueing systems together to construct this from text.
What is meaning?
400
As students develop in their reading ability, they need to notice multiple word parts, or "orthographic chunks," to help them decode these.
What are multisyllabic words?
500
A two-letter combination that stands for one phoneme; neither letter acts alone to represent the sound.
What is a digraph?
500
Ejemplos: h muda; c, s; y z; b y v
¿Qué son las letras tramposas?
500
Increased attention to these types of texts may facilitate the development of morphological and vocabulary knowledge.
What are expository or informational texts?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
TBD
500
Vocabulary words that span content areas (e.g., summarize, investigate).