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 diagnostic assessment of phonological skills.
What is the PAST test?
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 theoretical model that demonstrates the product of word recognition and language comprehension.
What is Simple View of Reading?
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?
The assessment used to measure a student's ability to spell phoneme-grapheme correspondences and orthographic patterns.
What is the LETRS spelling screener?
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?
The natural division of a syllable into two parts. The first part is before the vowel. The second part is the vowel and what follows after it.
What is onset-rime?
The survey tool used to identify which phonic and syllable correspondences and patterns the student has learned and which ones need to be taught.
What is the LETRS Phonics and Word Reading Survey?
A bound morpheme, usually of Latin origin, that cannot stand alone but is used to form words
What is a root?
The conscious effort to write and/or speak in a certain way, depending on the social context.
What is code-switching?
Units of speech organized around a vowel sound.
What is syllable?
A disability caused by deficits in phonological awareness, working memory, and rapid atomized naming.
What is dyslexia?
The assessment to measure how quickly student's name a series of printed, repeated, numbers, letters, or objects.
What is RAN (rapid automatic naming)?
Language of origin that is characterized by short one syllable words which are used for common everyday things.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
A word in one language that shares a common ancestor and common meaning with a word in another language.
What is cognate?
A speech sound with features of both a fricative and a stop; in English.
What is an affricate?
Refers to all the words stored in a person's oral long-term memory.
What is Phonological Lexicon?
The conceptualization of word reading development in four phases.
What are Ehri's Phases of Word Reading Development?
Occurs when phonemes are spoken together to produce syllables or words and the features of these phonemes are affected by the speech sounds that proceed or follow them.
What is coarticulation?
A mental model or conceptual framework for a specific topic or idea.
What is schema?