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Phonemic Awareness
Whole Language
Phonics
Phonics Part Two
Melting Pot
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The ability to identify, discriminate and manipulate phonemes.
What is phonemic awareness?
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The meaning of words.
What is vocabulary?
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The symbols that are used to represent sounds that we call letters.
What are graphemes?
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The smallest unit of sound in a language.
What is a phoneme?
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A symbol which aids in pronunciation.
What is a diacritical mark?
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The act of taking out sounds in a word or a syllable.
What is deletion.
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The act of constructing meaning, or a child's ability to see words, understand what they mean and connect thought.
What is comprehension?
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The act of sounding a word out or taking a word apart so it can e read.
What is decoding?
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A rime.
What is everything called from the vowel to the end of the syllable?
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a straight line above the sound representing the long vowel sound.
What is a macron?
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The act of manipulating phonemes.
What is elision?
300
The creators of the Whole Language Approach.
What are Ken and Yetta Goodman?
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False words or nonsense words.
What are pseudowords?
300
Sounds that restrict the airflow in the oral cavity when saying a sound.
What is a consonant?
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The parallel slashes that represent phonemes.
What are virgules?
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The act of separating syllables into the smallest piece of sound.
What is segmentation?
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A language spelling system, an example color v. colour.
What is orthography?
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The three boxes in Elkonin boxes?
What is the initial position, the medial position and the final position?
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The relationship between sounds and their spelling.
What is phonics?
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The simple formula for reading discovered by Gough and Tumner.
What is reading = decoding x comprehension?
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The six skills to phonemic awareness.
What are addition, deletion, substitution, rhyme, segmenting, and blending?
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They are all synonyms to the Whole Language Approach.
What are the whole to part, top down, whole word, and the look say methods?
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The definition for spelling.
What is teaching a person to listen to the sounds of a word and represent them with certain graphemes, or letters, in a particular order?
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The definition of alliteration.
What is the act of repeating sounds, usually the first, in a word.
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The synonyms of the approach created by Rummelhart.
What are the balanced approach, the interactive approach, and the eclectic approach?