Phonemic Awareness
This skill involves recognizing and working with the sounds in spoken words.
What is phonemic awareness?
This term refers to the relationship between letters and sounds.
What is phonics?
The ability to read text smoothly and with expression is known as this.
What is fluency?
The set of words a person understands when they hear or read them.
What is receptive vocabulary?
This is the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.
What is comprehension?
Breaking a word into its individual sounds is known as this process.
What is segmenting?
The combination of two letters that make one sound, like "sh" in "ship."
What is a digraph?
Repeating a text multiple times to improve speed and accuracy is called this.
What is repeated reading?
These are words that appear frequently in text and should be recognized quickly.
What are sight words?
Answering questions like "Who?" "What?" "Where?" and "When?" tests this type of comprehension.
What are literal comprehension questions?
This activity involves changing one sound in a word to create a new word.
What is phoneme substitution?
This rule explains why the "e" at the end of "make" makes the "a" say its name.
What is the silent e rule?
Reading with appropriate changes in pitch, tone, and volume is known as this.
What is prosody?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word is called this.
What is an antonym?
Making educated guesses about what will happen next in a story involves this comprehension skill.
What is predicting?
Identifying the first sound in the word "cat" demonstrates this phonemic skill.
What is phoneme isolation?
A pair of vowels working together to make one sound, like "oa" in "boat."
What is a vowel team?
This assessment measures the number of words a student can read correctly in one minute.
What is words per minute (WPM)?
A word that has the same or similar meaning as another word is known as this.
What is a synonym?
Connecting what you read to your own experiences, other texts, or the world is known as this.
What are text connections?
The ability to blend individual sounds to form words is called this.
What is phoneme blending?
Which strand of the Reading Rope is phonics?
The blue strand, or word recognition
Fluent readers often group words together in this way to make reading more natural.
What is phrasing?
Understanding how words relate to each other, like "cat" to "animal," involves this type of vocabulary knowledge.
What is word classification?
This higher-order thinking skill involves understanding why characters act the way they do and the underlying messages of a text.
What is inferential comprehension?