Reading Foundations Flashcards
Phonological Awareness
The ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words
Examples of phonological awareness
Identifying rhyming words, segmenting sentences, and identifying syllables
Phonics
knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply the knowledge in decoding unfamiliar words
Phonemic Awareness
the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words
Phonemic awareness examples
blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with sounds in wors
Word Families
words that have common spelling patterns
Morpheme
the smallest unit in language that carries meaning
Onset
initial consonant sound of a syllable
Rime
the string of letters that follow the onset
Ex of onset and rime
Cat; c- is the onset and -at is the rime
Consonant Blends
A unit comprised of 2-3 consonants adjacent to each other
Criteria of morphemes
- A word or part of a word that has meaning
- Can’t be divided into smaller segments without changing its meaning
- Has the same stable meaning in different verbal environments
Affixes
a bound morpheme that occurs before or after a base; prefixes and suffixes
Reading fluency
ability to read accurately, smoothly, and with expression
Reading comprehension; student requirements
students must accurately recognize the words and process oral language
Reading comprehension
The ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning
Phonics Generalizations
Phonics rules taught to emerging readers to help them learn letter combination sounds
Benefit of phonics generalizations
increases reading and spelling ability
Reading Automaticity
Ability to quickly and accurately identify letters, letter sound correspondences, and isolated words
Compound Words
two or more words combined to create a new word
structural analysis
a strategy used to facilitate decoding as students become proficient readers
how does structural analysis help students?
it helps them learn parts of words so they can easily decode unknown words
homographs
words that are spelling the same but have different meanings
semantics
meaning of words; aids in students understanding
literary allusion
a reference to a person, place, or thing from previous literature
Metacognition
awareness and understanding of one’s own thought process
metacognitive reading strategy
while reading to students “thinking aloud” to demonstrate the connection between the text and their thoughts
standardized informal reading inventories
a diagnostic tool that assesses a student’s reading comprehension and accuracy
leveled text
texts made for the student to interact with
independent clause
a group of words that contain one subject and one verb; expresses a complete thought
dependent clause
a group of words containing a subject and verb; doesn’t express a complete thought
literary response
builds an argument about a text using evidence
scaffolds
supports for learning or solving problems
trade books
books published for the general public
phonemic blending
the ability to hear the sounds in a word, put them together, and say the word that is made