Important Terms Flashcards
Blend/Blending
To blend the sounds together in words
Onset and rime
Onset: everything up to the vowel sound
Rime: the vowel sound and everything after the vowel sound
Phoneme
Individual sound in words
Phonemic awareness
The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words
Phonological awareness
A broad term that refers to the understanding that spoken language can be broken into parts
Segmenting
To segment sounds in words
Syllable
Parts of a word attached with a vowel sound
Alphabetic principle
Systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sound
Environmental print
The surrounding print in the world
Book handling skills
Knowing that printed text carries a message
Understanding directionality (left to right, top to bottom) and 1:1 match
Knowing concepts of letter, word, sentence, and spaces
Understanding the use of punctuation
Advanced decoding
High level of decoding unknown words
Automaticity
Rapid recognition of words
Encoding
Decoding written words
Fluency
Ability to read text accurately, with appropriate rate and expression
Grapheme
letters in words
Phonics
Teaches relationships between letters and individual sounds
Syllable types
CVC
CCVC
CVCC
CVCe
CVVC
Systematic instruction
The plan of instruction includes a carefully selected set of letter-sound relationships that are organized in a logical sequence
affix
morpheme that is attached to a base word to form a new word
base word
the most basic part of a word, also know as a root
context clues
Using the context of the text to encode the word
Homographs
words in the same language with the same spelling but different pronunciation and meanings (e.g., bass=fish & bass=low, deep tone, bow=type of knot & bow=incline)
Inflectional suffixes
minimally change the meaning of the base word - ing, ed, es
Derivational Suffixes
change the meaning of the base or root word - tion, ous, ite
