Oral Language

Question 1

What is the study of sounds?

Answer 1

phonology

Question 2

The smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in meaning

Answer 2

Phonemes

Question 3

What does “phon” mean

Answer 3

sound

Question 4

Ability to manipulate sounds and sound chunks

Answer 4

Phonological Awareness

Question 5

What two concepts are critical to reading and language success?

Answer 5

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

Question 6

Ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds

Answer 6

Phonemic Awareness

Question 7

The order of Phonological Awareness

Answer 7

1. hear chunks of sounds
2. Take apart words with onset and word families (rimes)
3. hear individual sounds, play and manipulate them

Question 8

Eight Phonemic Awareness Activities

Answer 8

Isolation, Identity, Categorization,Blending, Segmentation,Deletion, Addition,Substitution

Question 9

Knowledge and Skills needed for Listening TEKS (Oral Language)

Answer 9

1. Determine reasons for listening
2. Listen critically to interpret and evaluate
3. Listen responsively to stories and texts
   Identify musical elements of language
4. Listen and speak to share and experience culture
5. Learn and use new vocabulary
6. Listen to enjoy spoken language

Question 10

Knowledge and Skills needed for Speaking (Oral Langue Teks)

Answer 10

1. Respond appropriately and courteously
2. Participate in rhymes, songs, conversations, and discussions
3. Infer meaning using visuals and actions
4. Adapt spoken language to audience and setting
5. Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking.

Question 11

Four types of interrelated vocabulary in order

Answer 11

Listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Question 12

What is the process of “picking up” or acquiring a new language

Answer 12

Language Acquisition

Question 13

Written letters that represent a spoken sound

Answer 13

Graphemes

Question 14

The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes. Letters and sounds coming together

Answer 14

Phonics

Question 15

Developmental Order of Phonological Awareness

Answer 15

I. Sound Chunks
Words in a sentence
Syllable
2. Onsets and Rimes
Dividing words into 
onsets and rimes
Creating rhymes using onsets and rimes
3. Phonemes
Isolation, 
Identity,
Blending and segmenting, and Addition and Deletion Substitution

Question 16

students hear individual sounds in words (pa activity)

Answer 16

Isolation

Question 17

Students hear and identify the same sound in different words (pa activity) ie. What sound is the same in music, mom, and mop?

Answer 17

Identity

Question 18

Students Identify which words are different in a list of words, based on sounds. ie ball, jar, bat. which one is not the same, jar - it doesn’t begin with sound /j/

Answer 18

Categorization

Question 19

Students put sounds together to make a word

Answer 19

Blending

Question 20

Students breaks words into their individual sounds and/or count the number of sounds in a word.

Answer 20

Segmentation

Question 21

Students remove a sound from a word and identify what remains. What is the word slap without /s/

Answer 21

Deletion

Question 22

Students create a new word by adding a sound ie when you add the /s/ sound to the word top, what word do you get?

Answer 22

Addition

Question 23

Students change one sound in a word to a different sound and identify the new word. ie I am thinking of a word that starts with /s/ but sounds like land, what is my word.

Answer 23

Substitution.

Question 24

In phonemic awareness activities what should you master in order, regarding sound placement first, before moving on to the next?

Answer 24

first, last, middle

Question 25

What is the Alphabetic Principle

Answer 25

1. Ability to associate sounds with letters and to use these sounds to form words
2. understanding that words in spoken language are represented by letters in print.
3. Sounds in words have a predictable relationship with the letters that represent these sounds

Question 26

The understanding that a sequence of written letters represents a sequence of spoken sounds

Answer 26

Graphophonemic Awareness

Question 27

Using graphophonemic awareness to figure out, sound new words, convert the code.

Answer 27

decoding

Question 28

students ability to apply graphophonemic awareness and decode written words

Answer 28

Letter-sound knowledge

Question 29

graphemes

Answer 29

Written letters that represent a spoken sound.

Question 30

How many graphemes does the English language have

Answer 30

26

Question 31

How many phonemes does the English language have

Answer 31

44

Question 32

A sound made when two or more letters join together to make a new sound, ie: ch,sh, th, and wh

Answer 32

Digraphs

Question 33

A sound made when two vowels slide together, ie oi, oy , ou,

Answer 33

Diphthongs

Question 34

Marks such as the cedilla beneath he c or the tilde above the n in Spanish or French, marks which tell the reader how the sound or word is pronounced

Answer 34

Diacritic Marks

Question 35

The ability to recognize the printed letters of the alphabet based on each letter’s unique shape

Answer 35

Alphabetic Recognition

Question 36

Developmental Phases of Alphabetical Skills

Answer 36

1. Pre-Alphabetic Phase
2. Partial Alphabetic Phase
3. Full Alphabetic Phase
4. Consolidated Alphabetic phase

Question 37

Environmental signage leads to awareness of environmental print : ie, kids recognize favorite places by recognizing logo’s instead of the letters of the place.

Answer 37

Pre- Alphabetic Phase

Question 38

Learners begin to connect the shape of letters with sounds, such as the first letter of their friends names.

Answer 38

Partial Alphabetic Phase

Question 39

Learners begin to connect letters with sounds, and using this connection between their oral vocabulary to determine the meaning of written words.

Answer 39

Full Alphabetic Stage

Question 40

Learners begin to understand that they can use parts of words they know to help them decode new words. They begin to make new words using onsets and rimes, word families, and letter chunks (such as ‘tion’).

Answer 40

Consolidated Alphabetic Stage