Phonemic Awareness Continuum
What level involves separating out individual sounds in words?
Phoneme Isolation
What level are students at when they can manipulate sounds in words? (Most complex skill and contains several skills)
Phoneme Manipulation
What is the third vocabulary skill acquired? (Refers to the words we need to know to understand what we read; part of receptive vocabulary)
Reading Vocabulary
Refers to reading left to right, and top to bottom.
Directionality
Writing requires what skills?
Fine-Motor Skills
What is the level called when students can combine sounds in a word?
Blending
What level are students at when they can segment sentences into words?
Sentence Segmentation
What is the second vocabulary skill acquired? (Consists of the words we use when we speak; part of expressive vocab)
Speaking Vocabulary
What is the term for everyday life print (labels and logos)?
Environmental Print
How can we teach pencil control?
What level are students at if they can can divide the word into individual sounds and are able to count or identify how many sounds in a word?
Segmenting
What level are students at when they can identify and produce words with the same initial sound?
Alliteration
What is the last vocabulary skill acquired? (Consists of words we use when we write; part of expressive vocab)
Writing Vocabulary
What is the first stage of early Print Awareness?
Books are held correctly
How can we teach letter formation?
What level are students at when they can manipulate the word by deleting sounds to make a new word?
Deletion
What level are students at when students can blend and segment syllables of spoken words?
Syllable Segmentation
What is the first vocabulary skill acquired? (Refers to the words we need to know to understand what we hear; part of receptive vocab)
Listening Vocabulary
What is a strategy to promote print awareness and tracking print?
Why should we teach student in various forms?
It helps to separate letter formation and pencil skills.
What is the most complex/highest level of the phonemic awareness continuum? (Occurs when students can identify the sounds, locate the sounds in the words, and switch them with other sounds)
Substitution
What level are students at when students can match and identify sounds of words?
Rhyme
This term relates to listening vocab and when acquired, students can understand a story that is being read aloud (Develops before reading comprehension).
Listening Comprehension
Refers to the knowledge of Words v. Pictures and Letters v. Words.
Differentiation
Why does writing correctly from the start help students?
It helps reduce letter reversals, messy handwriting, and errors.