Praxis 5019 Flashcards
Digraph
a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound (sh, th, etc)
Dipthong
Going from one vowel to another without discernible difference
Onset
the consonant sound that comes before the first vowel in a syllable (“sw” in “swim”)
Rime
the entire syllable excluding the onset (“im” in “swim”)
Blend
weaving individual sounds together to produce a word
Phonemes
the smallest unit of sound
Alphabetic Principle
Each phoneme should have its own distinctive graphic representation
Phonemic Awareness
the awareness that individual letters have specific sounds associated with them.
Phonics
associating sounds with writing
Phonological Awareness
the awareness that words are made up of sounds
Emergent Literacy
when a child uses books and writing materials to pretend to read/write, even though they don’t know how
Guided reading
The teacher gives the students a structure for and tells them the purpose of their reading, as well as a structure for how to respond to the text
Round-Robin reading/Popcorn reading
students take turns reading from the book
Echo reading
the teacher reads a line from a book and the students repeat it
Choral reading
students read aloud at the same time as the teacher
All-in-the-gap reading
teachers read from a book and pause occasionally to have the students chime in with the appropriate rhyming or predictable word
Shared reading
echo, choral, or fill-in-the-gap
big books
books that are very large, with large print and pictures
Decode
look at written text and “translate” it into spoken sounds
Sight words
words that a student recognizes on sight, rather than having to first sound them out
Fluency
how well a student is able to read something
Encode
take spoken sounds and “encode” them as written words
Narrative Writing
writing that tells a story and has chronology