Praxis 7811: ELA Flashcards
Semantics
Meaning of individual words. Study of meaning
Connotation
Idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Phonology
Organization of sounds in language
Denotation
Formal definition of a word
Morphology
Study of smallest units of meaning in words
Alphabetic Principle
Letters and letter patterns represent sounds of spoken language
Conjunction
Words that join clauses or phrases (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
Partial-Alphabetic Principal
(2) Students recognize some letters and can use them to remember words by sight
Phonological Awareness
Students must see. Identifying and manipulating units of oral language (parts of words, syllables, onsets, rimes)
Objective Pronoun
Occurring as the direct object in the predicate of the sentence (me, him, her, them, us, you, whom)
Full-Alphabetic Phase
(3) Student attends to every letter in every word
Preposition
Word places before a noun/pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word (by, over, under, with, for)
Level 1 of Phonemic Awareness
Phoneme Isolation
Level 2 of Phonemic Awareness
Blending
Level 3 of Phonemic Awareness
Segmenting
Level 4 of Phonemic Awareness
Addition (Complex skill)
Level 5 of Phonemic Awareness
Deletion (Complex skill)
Level 6 of Phonemic Awareness
Substitution (Complex skill)
Level 1 of Phonological Continuum
Rhyme
Level 2 of Phonological Continuum
Alliteration
Level 3 of Phonological Continuum
Sentence segmentation
Level 4 of Phonological Continuum
Syllable segmentation
Level 6 of Phonological Continuum
Phoneme manipulation
Level 5 of Phonological Continuum
Onset/time blending/segmenting
Cueing Systems
Use background knowledge to apply to understanding words
Syntactic Cues
Structure of the word as in the rules and patterns of language and punctuation
Graphophonic Cues
Involve the letter-sound or sound-symbol relationship of language
State 1 of Fluency
Accurate, automatic letter naming
State 2 of Fluency
Word reading
State 3 of Fluency
Reading connected text