Terms I
Another name for letters (a, b, c) or letter combinations (ch, th).
What is a grapheme?
The ability to detect and manipulate individual sounds in spoken language.
What is phonemic awareness?
Speed, accuracy, and prosody.
What is reading fluency?
The letters f, l, s, and z typically double at the end of single-syllable, short vowel words.
What is the FLOSZ rule?
A form of whole-language instruction that makes use of three-cueing and independent reading of leveled books.
What is balanced literacy?
What is a phoneme?
Any word that is recognized automatically.
An unstressed vowel sound (e.g., ǝ-bout, repǝtition).
What is schwa?
A "lax" sound produced with little tension in the vocal cords.
What is a short vowel?
When a teacher asks students to write a word or sentence, the part of the lesson the teacher is doing is [dictation] or [phonemic awareness].
What is dictation?
The relationship between sounds and letters.
What is phonics?
The ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondence.
What is decoding?
What is orthography?
Two or more consonants produced together in rapid succession (e.g., str, sl, st).
What is a consonant cluster?
Books written to align with previously taught phonics patterns (e.g., Bob books).
What are decodable texts?
The principle that reflects the fact that words are composed of letters that represent speech sounds?
What is the Alphabetic Principle?
A consonant produced by stopping airflow (e.g., /b/, /p/, /d/).
What is a stop sound?
Words that appear often in print (e.g., Dolch & Fry lists).
What are high-frequency words?
The bond between spellings, pronunciation, and meaning that occurs as a result of phonological recoding.
What is orthographic mapping?
A tool teachers use to help students remember the way phonemes are produced and connect those articulatory gestures with spellings.
What is a sound wall?
Words that do not follow a predictable letter-sound pattern.
What is an irregular word?
A segment of speech consisting of at least one vowel.
What is a syllable?
Reading and spelling share a reciprocal relationship. Other names for reading and spelling are...
What are decoding and encoding?
When each part of the instruction is based upon previously learned concepts.
What is cumulative instruction?
A structured literacy curriculum taught in EDSE 5150E/7150E.
What is UFLI?