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Pillars of Reading Instruction
Effects of Illiteracy
Reading Terms
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Phonemic Awareness Activities
100
Instruction in the words necessary for effective communication.
What is vocabulary instruction?
100
Citizens are unable to read and draw conclusions about political issues and candidates.
What is the effect on our democracy?
100
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
100
The idea or concept that letters and letter combinations represent phonemes in an orthography.
What is the alphabetic principle?
100
The act of assembling single speech sounds into a whole word.
What is phoneme blending?
200
Instruction in the ability to understand, to remember and communicate meaning for what is read.
What is comprehension instruction?
200
People are less willing to fight for their rights when purchasing goods.
What is the effect on consumer behavior?
200
A speech sound that combines with others in a language system to make words.
What is a phoneme?
200
A linguistic term for the part of the syllable that includes the vowel and what follows it.
What is a rime?
200
The act of separating a word into its component speech sounds.
What is phoneme segmentation?
300
Instruction in the ability to draw relationship between letters and the sounds of spoken language.
What is phonics instruction?
300
People feel shame and guilt. They think that it is their fault that they are unable to do that which others around seem to do with ease.
What is the effect on emotions?
300
An awareness of all levels of the speech sound system.
What is phonological awareness?
300
A morpheme that precedes a root or base word and that contributes to or modifies the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
300
The act of leaving out a sound in a word in order to make a new word.
What is phoneme deletion?
400
Instruction in the ability to read text quickly and accurately.
What is fluency instruction?
400
People are unable to find work that pays well.
What is the effect on wages?
400
A writing system.
What is orthography?
400
A morpheme, added to a root or base word, that often changes the word's part of speech and that modifies its meaning.
What is a suffix?
400
The act of substituting one phoneme for another in order to create a new word.
What is phoneme substitution?
500
Instruction in the ability to notice, think about and work with the individual sounds in spoken words.
What is phonemic awarenessiInstruction?
500
People are unable to read instructions from physicians, public service information or articles on how to improve their well-being.
What is the effect on health?
500
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a morpheme?
500
The rule system governing sentence formation; the study of sentence structure.
What is syntax?
500
The act of identifying and matching beginning sounds in words.
What is phoneme isolating and matching?