Phonological Awareness
The specific relationship between written letters and spoken words
What is the alphabetic principle?
First phonics skill taught
Correctly reading words, phrases, sentences and passages
What is accuracy?
Input; reading and writing
What is Receptive Vocabulary?
Visual maps or diagrams that help readers organize information they read
What are graphic organizers?
The smallest unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
Clues that help students figure out unfamiliar words when reading
What are cues?
Recognizing words automatically and reading with appropriate speed
All the components of a piece of text that are not the main body of a text (ex: table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, etc.)
The most complex aspect of phonological awareness
What is phonemic awareness?
Two consonants, side by side in a word, that make one sound
What is a consonant digraph?
The ability to read aloud effortlessly and with appropriate expression
What is prosody?
Words used with higher level language that are found in various places (ex: school, home, community)
What are Tier-Two Words?
What is a diagnostic assessment?
The ability to identify where a sound appears in a word or identify what sound appears in a given position in a word
What is phoneme isolation?
Systematic approach that begins with instruction on graphemes and phonemes, then moves to blending sounds into syllables and eventually words
What is explicit phonics?
What is Prereading?
Words that are spelled the same but have different origins and meanings; may or may not be pronounced the same
What are homographs?
What the text says about the world outside of the story
What is the evaluative meaning?
The first vowel sound in a syllable and everything after
What is a rime?
"Back-up plans" to Visual/Phonics cues
What are semantic and syntactic cues?
The stage in Ehri's Stages of Word reading where a student can quickly recognize whole words and apply knowledge of familiar words to unfamiliar words
What is the Consolidated Alphabetic Stage?
What is an inflectional suffix?
Tests based on objectives that contain specific conditions, outcomes and criteria that are expected for satisfactory completion of a task
What are Criterion-Referenced tests?