Consonant and Vowels
Two vowels placed together, but only the long sound of one of the vowels is heard. Example: Rain and steam
What is Vowel Digraphs
The Understanding that letters represent certain sounds (written letters and the oral processing)
What is Phonics?
Basic knowledge about how print and books in general work
What is Concepts of Print
Essentially a reading process
What is Decoding
Written representation of a phoneme
What is a Grapheme
Two vowels placed together in a word that produce a single glide.
What is a Vowel Dipthong
The Smallest Unit of sound in spoken words that affects the word's meaning
What is a Phoneme
Children with this understand that print has different functions depending on the context in which it appears.
What is Print Awareness
Essentially a writing process
What is Encoding
Put sounds together to make a word before hearing a word
What is blending
Two connecting consonants that make a unique sound. Example: s and t in stop.
Words that share the same sounds but not necessarily the same letter endings
What is Rhyme
Words are composed of letters that represent sounds.
What is Alphabetic understanding
Students convert letters into sounds and then blend the sounds to form a word
What is Synthetic Phonics
Pull sounds apart after hearing the entire word
What is segmenting
Two connecting consonants that make one sound. Example: s and h in sheep.
Always ends with the same letters
What is Rime
Knowing letters and combos of letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.
What is the Alphabetic Principle
Using systematic relationships between letters and phonemes (letter-sound correspondence) to retrieve the pronunciation of an unknown printed string or to spell words.
What is Phonological Recoding
What is the relationship between letters and their sounds called?
What is Graphophonic system
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Like Phonological Awareness, _____ involves an understanding of the way that sounds function in words, but focuses only on Phonemes
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Involves knowledge about forming the 26 letters of the alphabet
What is Graphic
Teachers begin with sight words, known words developed from authenic reading, and then guide the students to analyze patterns and identify the phonics generalizations
What is Analytic Phonics
The ability to identify and manipulate various units of sound in speech, including syllables, onsets, rimes, rhymes, as distinct from their meaning
What is Phonological Awareness