Basic Concepts
Language Facts
PotPourri
Orthography
Comprehension
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The system of correspondence between phonemes and graphemes
What is Phonics?
100
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How many letters in the alphabet?
100
When children do this, they begin to quickly associate phonemes with graphemes
What is crack the code?
100
not a 1 -1 representation of speech sounds
What is the orthography of English?
100
automatic word decoding leads to this
What is fluency?
200
knowing that oral language has a sound structure and being able to hear the sound parts in language
What is phonological awareness?
200
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How many sounds in the English language?
200
Two letters that stand for one phoneme such as sh
What is a digraph?
200
Phoneme - Grapheme Correspondence (consonant and vowel graphemes) Position of a phoneme (toad or tow; cat - kite) Letter Patterns (syllables and syllable-division) Meaning (morphemes --- re, -ly)
What are ways by which we learn to spell in English?
200
fluency and proficient vocabulary reading leads to this
What is comprehension?
300
the smallest functional unit of speech such as c or sh
What is a phoneme?
300
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How many syllable types in the English language?
300
5 Best Practices in Teaching Phonics
What is Explicit Systematic Sequential Multisensory Cumulative
300
the smallest meaningful part of words
What is a morpheme?
300
Prealphabetic, Early Alphabetic, Later, Alphabetic and Consolidated Alphabetic
What are the developmental stages of reading?
400
The five big components of reading
What is phonemic awareness phonics fluency vocabulary comprehension
400
The Six Syllable Types
What is Open (no) Closed (not) Vc-e (note) Bossy R (or, er, ir, ur, ar) Vowel Team (oa, ow, oe, etc...) C-le (ble, cle, dle, fle, gle, kle, ple, tle, zle,
400
The Syllable Division Patterns
What is VCCV V.CV and VC.V V.V VC.CCV and VCC.CCV
400
base words that can stand on their own
What is a free morpheme?
400
When children begin to quickly associate phonemes with graphemes
What is crack the code?
500
the study of speech sounds and their functions in a langauge
What is phonology?
500
2 or 3 consonant graphemes in which the sounds are separate and distinguishable --- not one sound sl, bl, dr, etc...
What are consonant blends?
500
Developmental Stages of Reading
What are the prealphabetic, early alphabetic, later alphabetic and consolidated alphabetic stages of reading?
500
a morpheme that exists only in combination with other morphemes
What is a found morpheme?
500
Reader uses phonemes, syllable units, morphemic units and whole words to read
What is the consolidated alphabetic stage of reading?