Word Recognition
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
What is phonics?
The conscious awareness of individual speech sounds in spoken syllables and the ability to manipulate those sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
A letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning, or make a new word.
What is a prefix?
The conscious effort to write and/or speak in a certain way, depending on the social context.
What is code-switching?
The matching of phonemes in words with the graphemes that represent them.
What is phoneme-grapheme mapping?
The repetition of initial sounds in two or more words or syllables.
What is alliteration?
A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change the meaning, or make a new word.
What is a suffix?
The system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences.
What is syntax?
A student's bank of words that are instantly and effortlessly recognized.
What are sight words?
A disability caused by deficits in phonological awareness, working memory, and rapid atomized naming.
What is dyslexia?
A bound morpheme, usually of Latin origin, that cannot stand alone but is used to form words
What is a root?
A word in one language that shares a common ancestor and common meaning with a word in another language.
What is cognate?
Units of speech organized around a vowel sound.
What is syllable?
Refers to all the words stored in a person's oral long-term memory.
What is Phonological Lexicon?
Language of origin that is characterized by short one syllable words which are used for common everyday things.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
A mental model or conceptual framework for a specific topic or idea.
What is schema?