Big Five
Literacy Terms
Phonics
Comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
100
Freedom from decoding problems; reading with appropriate accuracy, automaticity, and prosody
What is fluency
100
The written representation of a letter
What is Grapheme
100
A pair letters that work together to make one sound brown, clown, smash, slam, flag
What is consonant blend
100
thinking about ones thinking
What is metacognition
100
The ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes and the ability to identify individual words, rhyming words, syllables and onset and rime.
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonological awareness
200
Understanding the meaning of words and word parts
What is vocabulary
200
A pair of two or more letters that together only make one sound. shoe, ship, thumb, chair
What is a consonant digraph
200
A blend of vowel sound in one syllable: (oi in boil, oy in toy, ow in now, ou in cloud)
What is Diphthongs
200
teacher models then student practices thinking aloud the reading
What is think alouds
200
There are 44 sounds in the English language which are represented by a key symbol
What is phoneme
300
the ability to hear individual sounds in spoken language
What is phonemic awareness
300
The foundation for all reading development
What is oral language
300
The letter r affects the sound of the vowel that precedes
What is r-controlled vowel
300
Asking questions such as.... Is this making sense? Do I understand what I've read?
What is self-monitoring
300
This can be represented by any vowel grapheme (a,e,i,o, and u) and typically occurs in the an unaccented syllable.
What is Schwa
400
the print to sound connection
What is phonics
400
The entire portion of a syllable that precedes the vowel
What is onset
400
Sounds that are not commonly classified as long or short vowels
What is variant vowel digraphs
400
It is important to involve readers in the reading process. Best practices suggest teachers do this by planning activities for.....?
What is before, during, after
400
When students can manipulate sounds in a word by adding /p/ to the word "at" to make a new word.
What is beginning sounds
500
ability to understand what one reads
What is comprehension
500
The entire portion of a syllable that begins with a vowel sound
What is rime
500
The understanding that grapheme's represent spoken sounds and that these sounds go together to make a word
What is alphabetic principle
500
Scientific terms for Story and Information text structures
What is Narrative and Expository Text
500
When students can identify the beginning sound, the end sound, and the middle sound of a syllable they have true understanding of
What is Phonemic Awareness