Competency 1: Oral Language

Question 1

Phonology

Answer 1

The study of sounds

Question 2

Phonemes

Answer 2

The smallest part of the spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words. Ex) mop - top, cat-hat

Question 3

Phonological Awareness

Answer 3

The ability to hear and manipulate sounds and sound chunks. The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds.

Question 4

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Answer 4

1) Isolation
2) Identity
3) Categorization
4) Blending
5) Segmentation
6) Deletion
7) Addition
8) Substitution

Question 5

Isolation

Answer 5

Phonemic Awareness Activities
Students hear individual sounds in words.
Ex) what’s the first sound you hear in top? T. What is the last sound? P

Question 6

Identity

Answer 6

Phonemic awareness activity
Students hear and identify the same sound in different words.
What sound is the same in teacher, table and tree? The beginning sound, /t/

Question 7

Categorization

Answer 7

Phonemic awareness activity
Students identify which word is different in a list of words, based on sounds.
Which word doesn’t belong - cat, King, or face? Face because it doesn’t start with /k/.

Question 8

Blending

Answer 8

Phonemic Awareness Activity
Students put sounds together to make a word.
What word is /k/a/t/?
Cat

Question 9

Segmentation

Answer 9

Phonemic Awareness activity
Students break down words into their individual sounds and/or count the number of sounds in a word. It is the opposite of blending.
How many sounds are in fan? /f/a/n/- 3

Question 10

Deletion

Answer 10

Phonemic Awareness Activity
Students remove a sound from a word and identity what remains.
What word is clap with /k/? Lap

Question 11

Addition

Answer 11

Phonemic Awareness Activity
Students create a new word by adding a sound.
What word do you have when you add /s/ to the beginning of top? Stop!

Question 12

Substitution

Answer 12

Phonemic Awareness Activity
Students change one sound in a word to a different sound and identify the new word.
I’m thinking of a word that sounds like man but starts with /r/. Ran!!

Question 13

Semantics

Answer 13

Relating to the meaning of words, groups of words, signs, symbols and phrases.

Question 14

Morphology

Answer 14

The study of how the meaning of a word is changed when a morpheme is added.

Question 15

Morpheme

Answer 15

The smallest unit of meaning in a language; a part that changes the meaning.
Ex) Ed, ing, re, pre, spect

Question 16

Discourse

Answer 16

A conversation or dialogue between two people. It can also relate to the jargon and vocabulary of a specific group of people such as doctors or teachers.

Question 17

Pragmatics

Answer 17

The way meaning is implied by context and expressions.

She’s smart can be true or someone being sarcastic

Question 18

Onsets

Answer 18

The sounds in a syllable that comes before the vowel. Ex) Mop- /m/

Question 19

Rimes

Answer 19

The vowels and everything else. ex) Mop-/op/