Phonological Awareness
what is phonological awareness?
ability to hear and manipulate the spoken parts in a word and sentences
What is phonemic awareness?
ability to work with the individual sound or phoneme in spoken words
what is concepts of print?
Basic understanding about the way print works including the direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words
what is a phoneme?
any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another
what is alphabetic principle?
The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual phonemes in written words.
what is a syllable?
a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word
What is rime?
ending sound in a word
what is print directionality?
ability to identify the directionality of a given sentence and read left to right
what is a medial phoneme?
the sound in the middle of the word
what is explicit instruction?
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction . The instruction offered should include a great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
what is segmenting syllables?
ability to identify how many syllables are in a given word
What is onset?
Beginning of a word/first sound in a word
what is word families?
Word families are groups of words that have a common pattern or groups of letters with the same sound.
what is a final phoneme?
sound at the end of the word
what is emergent literacy?
A term that is used to explain a child's knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write words.
what is syllabication?
the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing
what is blending onset-rime?
putting the onset and rime together into one word and being able to speak said word in fluency
what is letter-knowledge?
knowing that the same letter can look different, that letters have names and are related to sounds.
what is adding/deleting phonemes?
being able to remove a phoneme and insert another to create a new word
what is CVC words?
word that is made up of a consonant, vowel and consonant sound
what is alliteration?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
what is segmenting onset/rime?
ability to hear a spoken word and split it into onset and rime
what is environmental print?
the print of everyday life. It's the name given to the print that appears in signs, labels, and logos. Street signs, candy wrappers, labels on peanut butter and the K in Kmart are other examples of environmental print
what is decoding phonics?
the process of working out how to say (''sounding out'') an unfamiliar written word
what is a basal reader?
textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren