Sound & awareness
What is one example of oral language?
What is speaking with others or having a conversation with someone?
What is knowing and recognizing the letters of the alphabet?
The process of sounding out written words.
What is decoding?
Fluency
What is the ability to read accurately, smoothly, and at an appropriate pace?
This means giving students different ways to access and participate in learning
What is learning access points?
This is the smallest unit of sound in a spoken word.
What is a phoneme?
Alphabetic principle
What is the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent?
Encoding
What is the process of converting spoken sounds into written symbol?
Decodable text
What is books or passages that use phonics patterns students have already learned?
What is intervention?
The approach focuses on teaching students to recognize sounds before connecting them to letters.
What is sound first?
Grapheme
What is a letter or group of letters that represent a sound.
Helps students recognize words automatically by connecting their spelling, pronunciation, and meaning in memory.
What is orthographic mapping?
Foundational literacy skills
This means helping students develop a deeper understanding of what they read.
What is comprehension building?
What do students learn to recognize when practicing phonemic awareness?
What are individual sounds in words?
Phonics
What is teaches students how letters and sounds work together to read words?
Morphemes
What is the smallest meaningful part of the words?
Language comprehension
What is the ability to understand the meaning of spoken and written language.
These are teaching materials that are effective, reasearch supported, and aligned with learning goals.
What are high-quality instructional materials?
This includes recognizing rhymes, syllables, and sounds in spoken language.
What is phonological awareness?
A teacher asks students to say the sound each lettter makes when looking at word. What skill are they practicing?
What is phonics?
A student sees the word "jump" and recognizes it immediately without sounding it out. What reading process is helping the student?
What is orthographic mapping?
A teacher ask students to explain what happened in a story and describe its main idea. What skill is that building?
What is comprehension building?
This uses studies and research to help teachers choose effective ways to teach students.
What is evidenced based research?