Speech
What is oral language?
Spoken words used to communicate.
What is a grapheme?
A letter or written representation of one sound.
What is phonics?
The relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
What is fluency?
The ability to read with sufficient accuracy, rate, and expression to support comprehension.
What is Sounds First Instruction?
A reading method that teaches children to recognize, isolate, and manipulate phonemes before introducing whole words
What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of spoken language that makes a difference in a word's meaning.
What is a morpheme?
The meaningful parts of words.
Is decoding speech to print or print to speech?
Print to speech
If you understand what is being said to you and its meaning then you have...
Language Comprehension
What is the system of academic supports provided for reading gaps found by assessments?
Intervention
What is the ability to detect, identify, and manipulate phonemes in spoken words?
Phonemic Awareness
If you know letters are the components of words and that letters represent sounds systematically then you have mastered...
Letter Knowledge
What is the difference between encoding and decoding?
Decoding is sounding out words using phonics while encoding is the cognitive process of transferring speech to print.
What is the multi-layered process of teaching and learning how to construct meaningful understanding from spoken language and written text?
Comprehension Building
What materials are vetted and comprehensive curricula and class resources aligned with state and national standards used by teachers?
High-Quality Instructional Material
What is the umbrella term for larger parts of spoken language like words, syllables, onsets, and rimes?
Phonological Awareness
What is a decodable text?
Text that is controlled to include only the sound-spelling patterns that students have explicitly been taught.
A student understands that letters and letter combinations are symbols that represent speech sounds in words then they have mastered the...
Alphabetic Principle
What are foundational literacy skills?
The core decoding and early language competencies that allow a person to translate print into spoken language and build reading comprehension.
What are the explicit points in high-quality instructional materials that are designed to help learners with additional needs engage in materials?
Learning Access Points
What is the onset and rime in a word?
Onset is part of the syllable before the vowel and rime includes the vowel and everything after it.
What is the difference between a bound morpheme and a free morpheme?
A bound morpheme must be attached to other morphemes to make a word while free morphemes can stand alone.
What is the process in the brain that connects phonemes to their graphemes and to the meanings of specific words in memory?
Orthographic Mapping
A students knows how to handle a book, where to begin reading, and the difference between a letter and a word. What awareness do they have?
Print Awareness
What are instructional methods, strategies, and programs proven effective by rigorous scientific research and empirical data?
Evidence-Based Research