Phonics
The quick, effortless, and accurate recognition of individual words when reading.
What is rapid word identification?
The ability to identify specific phonemes in spoken words.
What is phoneme isolation?
Refers to the relationship between letters and the sounds they make.
What is phonics?
Reading accurately with the appropriate speed and intonation.
What is Fluency?
The smallest units of sound in language
What are phonemes?
Are composed of the initial consonants or
consonant blends in syllables.
What are onsets?
Involves identifying the common sound in a list of words that have either the same beginning, middle, or ending sound.
What is phoneme identification?
Consist of a series of connected boxes on paper.
What are Elkonin boxes?
Knowledge about correct oral language structures and the ways sentences are put together to decode and make meaning.
What are syntactic Cues?
Refers to the process of translating sounds to print using knowledge of letter-sound relationships.
What is encoding?
consist of the vowels and remaining consonants that follow onsets.
What are rimes?
The process of combining individual sounds (phonemes) to form words
What is blending?
refers to identifying and manipulating phonemes in spoken language.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
The use prior knowledge from personal experiences along with meaning contained in the text and pictures to make sense of what they are reading.
What are semantic cues?
A group of two or three consonants that blend together to make a sound
What is consonant blend?
the ability to identify specific phonemes in spoken words.
What is Phoneme isolation?
Removing one phoneme from a word and identifying what new word was formed.
What is phoneme deletion?
Activity where letters and their sounds are involved.
What is a phonics activity?
Refers to the process of translating print to speech, which is done by translating graphemes into phonemes.
What is decoding?
A group of two consonants that form a new consonant sound when combined.
What is a consonant digraph?
the ability to identify and manipulate sounds at the phoneme level only.
What is phonemic awareness?
changing one phoneme in a word and identifying what new word was formed.
What is phoneme subsitution?
Activity asking students what sounds they hear in the word cat.
What is a phonemic awareness activity?
Are letters or groups of letters that represent a single sound.
What are graphemes?
Instruction means that phonics lessons are purposely planned to address specific skills rather than waiting until problems arise with decoding words while reading.
What is Explicit?