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Question 1

Phoneme

Answer 1

the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances.

Question 2

Grapheme

Answer 2

a fundamental unit in a written language. Examples include alphabetical letters, numeral digits, and punctuation marks.

Question 3

Morpheme

Answer 3

the smallest component of a word, or other linguistic unit, that has semantic meaning. They can be free or bound.

Question 4

Graphophonic cues

Answer 4

looking at the shape of words, linking these to familiar graphemes/words to interpret them.

Question 5

Semantic cues

Answer 5

understanding the meanings of words and making connections between words or ideas.

Question 6

Visual cues

Answer 6

looking at the pictures and using visual narrative to interpret unfamiliar words or ideas.

Question 7

Syntactic cues

Answer 7

applying knowledge of word order and word classes to work out if a word seems right in the context.

Question 8

Contextual cues

Answer 8

searching for understanding in the situation of the story - comparing it to their own experience or their pragmatic understanding of social convections

Question 9

Miscue

Answer 9

making errors when reading - a child might miss a word or substitute another that looks similar, or guess a word from accompanying pictures.

Question 10

Digraph

Answer 10

two graphemes put together to make one phoneme e.g sh, ch, qu, wh, oo, ea etc

Question 11

Pragmatics