ELA Flashcards
Basal Reader
Textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren
Close reading
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
Closed syllables
A syllable that ends with a consonant sound, either singular or blend
Cluttering speech
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
Compound Word
A union of two or more words, either with or without hyphen
Consonant patterns
When consonants work together to represent one sound
Context clues
Hints that help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words in a sentence, paragraph or passage
Cued speech
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
CVC Word
Three letter words that start and end with a consonant
Decoding skills
The ability to break down words into sounds and blend them together to identify written words
Deletion
Omission of one or more sounds in a word
Derivational suffixes
Applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them to another
Devoicing
Make a vowel or voiced consonant voiceless
Digraph
Combination of two letters representing one sound
Dysfluency
The disruption or interruption of the ongoing flow of speech
Echo reading
Reading strategy where a teacher or adult reads a text aloud and then students repeat the reading back
Filler word
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
Free Morpheme
A word part that can stand alone as a word
High-frequency word
Most common words in written and spoken language
Inference/Inferential
Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
Comprehension/question
Understanding