The "ph" words
5 Key Components of Reading
Grammar
The "emes"
Phonemes or Morphemes?
100
a teaching approach in which students learn letter sound associations.
What is phonics instruction?
100
this key component involves teaching children to hear sound units or phonemes in language.
What is phonemic awareness?
100
this is a word that describes an action.
What is a verb?
100
the individual units of sounds in words.
What is a phoneme?
100
the phonemes b is /b/ and c is /k/ or /s/.
What is a letter sound?
200
knowing that oral language has a sound structure and being able to hear the sound parts in language.
What is phonological awareness?
200
this key component stresses learning how letters correspond to sounds.
What is Phonics?
200
this type of word indicates a person, place or a thing.
What is a noun?
200
a written or printed representation of a phoneme such b for /b/ and oy for /oi/.
What is a grapheme?
200
the phonemes sh, ch, ph, wh, th, etc.
What is a consonant digraph?
300
a special kind of phonological awareness involving the smallest units of oral language.
What is phonemic awareness?
300
this key component has to do with how reading sounds. It should be smooth, fluent, phrased and expressive.
What is fluency?
300
two or more words that are spelled differently, sound the same, and have different meanings (i.e. hair, hare).
What is a homophone?
300
the smallest meaningful linguistic unit.
What is a morpheme?
300
the phonemes ai, ea, oa, etc.
What is a vowel digraph?
400
the smallest functional unit of speech such c or sh.
What is a phoneme?
400
this key component stresses the meaning of words and strives to constantly add to a student's word knowledge.
What is vocabulary instruction?
400
two or more words that are spelled the same, sound the same, and have different meanings (i.e. bear (the animal) vs. bear (to support))
What is a homonym?
400
the letter/sound correspondence.
What is a grapheme-phoneme correspondence?
400
the morphemes ed, ing, ly, s, etc.
What is a suffix or ending?
500
the study of speech sounds and their functions in a language?
What is Phonology?
500
this key component is complex. You can not teach it, but you can teach some thinking strategies to enhance it.
What is comprehension?
500
two or more words that are spelled the same, sound different, and have different meanings (i.e. bow (and arrow) vs. (take a) bow).
What is a homograph?
500
name the 3 morphemes in this word: unlikely
What is un, like and ly.
500
the morphemes re, un, anti, etc.
What is an affix?