Quiz 3 Flashcards
Oddballs
A word with the same sound but different spelling pattern.
Constructive learning
The theory suggests that humans construct knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
Synthetic phonics
Students are taught the letter-sound correspondences and then expected to sound out words phoneme by phoneme
Analytic phonics
Uses known words
Students listen for sounds, look for patterns, or think about meaning
Sound sorts
Students must use the sound of each word to make sense of the alphabetic spelling.
Pattern sorts
Often follow a sound sort, the words are put together in groupings of the same sounds
Concept sorts
They can be used to organize ideas
You could use concepts sorts for assessing and building background knowledge before starting on a new unit.
Homophone
Words that have the same pronunciation but different meaning, origin, and different spelling.
Homographs
Words that are spelled the same but have different meaning and or have different pronunciation.
Closed sorts
The teacher provides the categories for the students to sort the words into.