Foundational Skills

Question 1

phonological awareness

Answer 1

umbrella term (includes phonemic awareness)
*recognize phonemes, words, syllables
- rhyme/ alliteration
- word awareness
- syllable awareness
- onset and rime

Question 2

phonemic awareness

Answer 2

*hear and use individual units of phonemes
- segmentation
- blending
- isolation
- manipulating

Question 3

alphabetic knowledge

Answer 3

recognize, name, and form LETTERS

Question 4

alphabetic principle

Answer 4

PHONEMES are represented as GRAPHEMES

Question 5

phonics

Answer 5

teaching how to use the alphabetic principle (letters represent sounds)

Question 6

consonant blends

Answer 6

2+ consonants = 2+ sounds
BLue, heLP

Question 7

consonant digraphs

Answer 7

2 consonants = 1 sound
SHine, laMB

Question 8

vowel digraphs

Answer 8

2 vowels = 1 sound
pIEce, pAInt

Question 9

diphthongs

Answer 9

2 vowels = 2 vowel sounds
sOUth, pOInt

Question 10

decoding

Answer 10

use letter/sound correspondence to read words

Question 11

semantics

Answer 11

cues for meaning
“does that make sense?”

Question 12

syntactic

Answer 12

structural cues
“does that sound right?

Question 13

graphophonic

Answer 13

visual cues
“does it look right?”

Question 14

synthetic phonics approach

Answer 14

make letters + letter combinations into sounds and blend these sounds

Question 15

analogy-based phonics approach

Answer 15

use the rime from a familiar word to read a similar rime of an unknown word

Question 16

analytic phonics approach

Answer 16

introduce word, then sound/spelling relationship

Question 17

closed syllable

Answer 17

short vowel + consonant

Question 18

open syllable

Answer 18

long vowel sound

Question 19

vce syllable

Answer 19

long vowel + consonant + silent e

Question 20

vowel team (digraphs/diphthongs)

Answer 20

digraphs/ diphthongs

Question 21

final stable

Answer 21

consonant + l + silent e