Detecting Sound
The smallest unit of sound in spoken language that can distinguish meaning.
What is a phoneme?
Term for understanding the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent.
What is phonics?
Term that describes reading accurately, at an appropriate rate, and with expression?
What is fluency?
The term that describes understanding the meaning of spoken or written language.
What is language comprehension?
Term that describes essential early reading and writing skills that help students become successful readers?
What is foundational literacy skills?
Skill that involves recognizing and manipulating individual sounds in spoken words.
What is phonemic awareness?
A student see the letter F and automatically knows its name.
What is letter knowledge?
The smallest units of language that carry meaning.
What are morphemes?
A teacher reads a story to their class and asks the students to tell them what happened in that story.
What is language comprehension?
A teacher sees a student struggling with letter-sound relationships and provides additional, targeted instruction to address the difficulty.
What is intervention?
A teacher is displaying literacy skill practice when they ask their students to clap syllables of words and give examples of words that rhyme.
What is phonological awareness?
A student recognizes the letters c-a-t and blends them together to read the word cat.
What is decoding?
A student is practicing how to read a passage that contains spelling patterns and letter-sounds relationships that have been taught previously.
What is decodable text?
A teacher asks a student to explain characters in a story, make predictions, and connections to prviously read stories.
What is comprehension building
A teacher uses scientific research to choose instructional practices that have evidence supporting their effectiveness in the classroom.
What is evidence-based research?
A student listened to a story read-aloud, discussed with their group, and explains the plot of the story. This student displayed and communicated their ideas with the people around them.
What is oral language?
A teacher says the word lamp, and a student writes that word down by sounding it out and using the correct letters.
What is encoding?
A student recognizes a word automatically by making connections with its spelling, pronunciation, and meaning.
What is orthographic mapping?
A student has no issue when it comes to decoding a certain passage but struggles to explain the meaning of what they read.
What is language comprehension
A teacher chooses a well-organized literacy program with aligned lessons, appropriate texts, and instructional resources designed to support learning.
What is high-quality instructional materials?
Literacy instruction that leverage the brain's natural oral language system by starting with spoken sounds and then mapping them to written letters.
What is sounds first?
Term explains that written letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language.
What is the alphabetic principle?
Identify the morphemes in the word unbreakable.
What is un-, break, and -able.
The teacher helps the students make predictions, ask questions, make connections, and summarize.
What is comprehension building?
A teacher uses pictures, spoken explanations, and hands-on activities to help students access the same literacy concept in different ways.
What is learning access points?