Words that appear to be recognized and pronounced on sight, without any conscious application of decoding or word analysis strategies.
What are sight words?
100
The smallest unit of meaning in a word.
What is a morpheme?
100
Breaking words into smaller units.
What is chunking?
100
This serves as a reference for confirming and studying meanings, pronunciations, and spellings of words.
What is a dictionary?
100
Developmental spelling
What is spelling patterns children use in uncorrected writing?
200
Word walls, and other words students encounter throughout the day.
What is environmental print?
200
A single morpheme that can stand alone.
What is a free morpheme?
200
A word divided up after the first vowel, consonant and before the second consonant vowel combination.
What is the VC/CV syllabication generalization?
200
This mark indicates a long or short vowel sound or indicates stress or accent.
What is a diacritical mark?
200
Indicates that children have not yet developed phonological or phonemic awareness.
What is the pre-communicative phase?
300
High frequency words
What are the 400 words that make up about 70% of writing?
300
A morpheme that is meaning bearing, but cannot stand alone.
Example: "s" in cats. (Has a meaning - plural, but can't stand alone)
What is a bound morpheme?
300
A word that is divided up after the first vowel, and before the first consonant vowel combination.
What is the V/CV syllabication generalization?
300
Syllables in a word that are emphasized.
What is accented?
300
Two words that have the opposite meaning.
Example: female; male
hot; cold
What are an antonyms?
400
The Dolch list of basic sight words.
What is the most well-known list of sight words?
400
Often changes the grammatical function, but not the core meaning of the root word to which it is added.
Example: cat to cats or walk to walked
What are inflectional endings?
400
A word that is divided up after the first vowel consonant and before the second vowel.
What is the VC/V syllabication generalization?
400
A word having the same or nearly the same meaning.
Example: Bliss - Happiness
Mad - Angry
What is a synonym?
400
Two words having the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Example: Too; two; to
Their, there
What is a homonym?
500
Fry
Who compiled the recent list of 300 New Instant Words?
500
The new word has a new meaning, and is usually a different part of speech.
god - goddess
self - selfless
What are derivational endings?
500
A prefix or suffix.
What is an affix?
500
When a vowel is followed by an r, it makes a special sound.
Example: ar, ir, or, er
car, guitar, care, pier, manor, butter
What is r-controlled?
500
A phase in developmental spelling where children use writing to communicate meaning, but words are often represented only by the initial letter sound. More consonants than vowels appear.