an approach to language learning in which students' oral compositions are transcribed and used as instructional reading materials.
What is Language Experience Approach (LEA)?
100
the vowel sound in an unaccented or unstressed syllable, example: the first vowel sound in alone
What is the schwa?
100
having to do with the sense of touch
What is tactile?
200
any of the various sources of information that may aid identification of a word unrecognized at first glance
What is cuing system?
200
word with the same spelling as another word
What is a homograph?
200
the study of the nature and structure of language
What is linguistics?
200
the recognition of sounds (phonemes) in words and the manipulation of those sounds (blending, segmenting, etc.)
What is phonemic awareness?
200
a spelling pattern in which two or more adjoining letters represent a single vowel sound, example: eigh for the long a sound in sleigh.
What is a vowel digraph?
300
a whole to part approach to word study
What is analytic phonics?
300
the course of a child's early interaction with books and other print
What is emergent reading?
300
a formal examination of oral reading errors
What is miscue analysis?
300
the study of speech sounds and their functions in a language.
What is phonology?
300
a theoretical movement during the 1980s for reading instruction supported by Vygotsky, Goodman, Smith and other theorists.
What is whole language?
400
sh, ch, th, wh
What is a digraph?
400
a word with different origin and meaning but the same pronunciation as another word ex: hare, hair
What is homophone?
400
the smallest, meaningful linguistic unit
What is a morpheme?
400
a part to whole approach to word study.
What is synthetic phonics?
400
a truthful or factual condition
What is validity?
500
any receptive or expressive disorder in language use caused by disease or injury to the brain.
What is aphasia?
500
oral reading that is smooth, without hesitation and with comprehension
What is fluency?
500
the study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system, aka spelling
What is orthography?
500
in vocabulary instruction, the use of a grid or matrix with target words on the vertical axis and possible features or attributes on the horizontal axis to determine relationships.
What is semantic feature analysis?
500
the "area" between the student's actual developmental level and his/her potential level