Phonemic Awareness
What is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words called?
What is phonemic awareness?
What term describes the relationship between letters and their sounds?
What is phonics?
Words that have the same or similar meanings are called what?
What are synonyms?
What does the acronym UFLI stand for?
What is University of Florida Literacy Institute?
This term describes the process of assessing students' academic performance on a regular basis to guide instruction.
What is progress monitoring?
This skill involves breaking a word into its individual sounds. For example, the word "cat" into /c//a//t/.
What is segmenting?
A combination of two letters that make one sound, such as "sh" in "ship," is called this.
What is a digraph?
These words have opposite meanings, like "hot" and "cold."
What are antonyms?
UFLI focuses on this type of reading instruction that is systematic and explicit.
What is structured literacy?
The main purpose of progress monitoring is to ensure that students are making adequate progress toward meeting these.
What are learning goals or benchmarks?
The process of combining individual sounds to say a word is known as this.
What is blending?
When two vowels are together, and the first one says its name, it follows this common rule.
What is the "vowel team" or "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking"?
This strategy involves using clues in the surrounding text to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What is context clues?
In UFLI, instruction is designed to be this, meaning it is based on scientific research about how children learn to read.
What is evidence-based?
This type of assessment is typically brief and is used frequently to monitor student progress in reading skills.
What is a formative assessment?
The ability to change one sound in a word, such as changing the /m/ in "mat" to /s/ to make "sat," is called what?
What is phoneme substitution?
This term describes a consonant sound blend in which both sounds are heard, like the "bl" in "black."
What is a consonant blend?
A word that describes a relationship between a part and a whole, like "petal" to "flower," is known as what?
What is an analogy?
The UFLI Foundations program primarily targets these two early literacy skills.
What are phonemic awareness and phonics?
This type of assessment is typically brief and is used frequently to monitor student progress in reading skills.
What is targeted or differentiated instruction?
Identifying the first sound in a word is known as this type of phonemic awareness skill.
What is initial sound identification?
What is the name of the rule that changes the vowel sound when a silent 'e' is added to a word, like in "cap" becoming "cape"?
What is the "magic e" or "silent e" rule?
What term is used for the specific vocabulary area, like "ecosystem" in science?
What is domain-specific vocabulary?
This approach, used in UFLI, involves teaching students to decode words through the application of phonics skills.
What is systematic phonics instruction?
What is the term for adjusting instruction based on students' progress monitoring data to better meet their needs?
What is data-driven instruction?