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Basal Reader

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Textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren

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Close reading

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A skill that requires students to determine purpose and notice features and language used by the author so that they can think thoughtfully and methodically about the details in the text and why they were used

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Closed syllables

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A syllable that ends with a consonant sound, either singular or blend

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Cluttering speech

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A speech pattern that is perceived as being too fast, too irregular or jerky and is accompanied by: excessive repetition of whole words or phrases

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Compound Word

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A union of two or more words, either with or without hyphen

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Consonant patterns

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When consonants work together to represent one sound

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Context clues

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Hints that help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words in a sentence, paragraph or passage

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Cued speech

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Method of communication in which the mouth movements of speech are combined with a system of hand movements to facilitate understanding and use by people who are deaf or hard of hearing

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CVC Word

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Three letter words that start and end with a consonant

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Decoding skills

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The ability to break down words into sounds and blend them together to identify written words

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Deletion

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Omission of one or more sounds in a word

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Derivational suffixes

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Applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them to another

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Devoicing

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Make a vowel or voiced consonant voiceless

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Digraph

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Combination of two letters representing one sound

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Dysfluency

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The disruption or interruption of the ongoing flow of speech

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Echo reading

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Reading strategy where a teacher or adult reads a text aloud and then students repeat the reading back

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Filler word

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A word, sounds or phrase that doesn’t add meaning to a sentence or conversations but is used to fill space while someone is speaking

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Free Morpheme

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A word part that can stand alone as a word

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High-frequency word

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Most common words in written and spoken language

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Inference/Inferential

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Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

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Comprehension/question

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Understanding

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Mean length of utterance

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The average number of morpheme per utterance

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Morphosyntactic proficiency

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The ability to understand how words are formed and how they function in sentences

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Nonsense word fluency

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A test that measures a student’s ability to blend letter sounds and understand letter-sound correspondences

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Phonemic awareness

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The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds

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Phonics

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Matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters

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Phonological loop

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The speech- and sound-related component of working memory and holds verbal and auditory information

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Phrase speech intelligibility

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The percentage of words that a listener can understand from a speaker

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Plosive

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Denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate

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Pre-primer & Primer (Dolch) Words

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List of 40 fundamental words that are essential building blocks for early reading fluency

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Run on sentences

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Occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together without proper punctuation or conjunctions

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Sentence starter

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A word or phrase that introduces the rest of the sentence

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Sight word

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Common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build vocab

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Sound blending

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Combining sounds to form words

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Sound omission

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Speech articulation disorder that occurs when a person leaves out certain sounds while speaking

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Sound out

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Identify a word based on the sounds that one hears

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Spelling

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Process of writing or naming letter of a word

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Syllable strings

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A group of segments that are organized around a vowel or vowel-like element

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Tap out sounds

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Used to decode words

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Verbal reasoning

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Understanding and reasoning using concepts framed in words

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Visual tracking

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The ability to move your eyes quickly and accurately to follow a moving object

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Visual/Verbal Cues

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Visual or Verbal clues used to help decode meaning

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Voiced

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Speech sounds that are produced when the vocal cords vibrate

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Voiceless

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Sounds made by air passing through the mouth without the vocal cords vibrating

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Vowel digraph

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Combination of two vowel letters that create a single vowel sound or diphthong

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Vowel distortion

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When vowels are produced incorrectly

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Vowel team

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Combination of letters that represent a single vowel sound

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Word class

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Category of words of similar form or function, part of speech

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Word families

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Groups of words that have a common feature or pattern

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Word walls

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Collection of words that are displayed in large visible letters on a wall

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Word webs

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Tool used to expand student’s knowledge of the focus word

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Words in isolation

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The ability to decode or learn a word without the benefit of any context

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Writing prompt

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Direction to write about a particular topic