Phonemic Awareness
The smallest unit of speech
What is a phoneme?
Matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters
What is phonics?
Producing and comprehending spoken language including vocabulary and grammar
What is oral language?
When readers use knowledge of the connections between graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds) in a word
What is decoding?
This curriculum based measure (CBM) is used weekly by our RTI reading teachers
What is Dibels?
The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds
What is phonemic awareness?
Kindergarten teachers should introduce these within the first three months of school
What are letters or the alphabet?
Having knowledge of words and their meanings
What is vocabulary?
Whole Phonics, Flyleaf, and Jump Rope Readers are examples of this type of book
What is a decodable book or text?
This inventory can be found on ESGI and is great to measure students' decoding knowledge
What is the decoding inventory?
Boxes that are used to segment words into individual sounds
What are elkonin or sound boxes?
Dividing a word into its parts that can be decoded
What is chunking?
From incidental learning and explicit learning.
Students are able to apply these skills when reading decodable texts
What is phonics or decoding?
What is a running record?
The ability to break up spoken words into their separate sounds
What is segmenting?
The letter-sound relationship is taught in an organized and logical sequence and the instruction provides precise directions for teaching letter-sound relationships
What is systematic and explicit?
Words found in many different subject disciplines (ex. Examine, Authority, Establish). Isabel Beck brought them to life!
What are Tier 2 words?
These other types of commonly read words are also found in decodable texts
What are high frequency words?
What MTSS stands for
What is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support?
Adding, deleting, or substituting individual phonemes in words
What is manipulating?
The number of phonemes in the English language
What is 44?
A group of synonyms that have varying degrees of strength, for example: Big, Large, Huge, and Gigantic
What are shades of meaning?
The formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of specific words in memory
What is orthographic mapping?
The high-quality classroom instruction that all students receive. It encompasses best practices and differentiated instruction.
What is Tier 1 instruction?