Word Identification Flashcards
Embedded Phonics Approach
an approach to phonics instruction that involves implicitly teaching through reading or in context
A student learns to decode the word “snake” when reading a short story about a boy who goes hiking
Whole Word Reading
reading a word by sight, without attempting to decode it
Analytic Phonics Approach
A popular way to teach phonics in which students learn to recognize whole words by sight and then break them down into smaller parts of sound.
Syntactic Cue
Use of a sentence or paragraph’s grammar to comprehend a text
Synthetic Phonics Approach
an accelerated approach to phonics instruction that explicitly teaches how to convert letters into sounds (phonemes) and then blend the sounds to form words.
A teacher first teaches the sounds of each letter and then focuses on how to blend the sounds together to pronounce whole words
Dolch Word List
the 220 most frequently used words that are considered basic level to the reading of a first or second grader in English
Fry Word List
the 100 most frequently occurring words in the English language; often used for sight word instruction
Analogy-Based Phonics Approach
an approach to phonics instruction in which students use knowledge of word patterns to decode new words
In an analogy-based phonics approach, to decode the unknown word “zap,” students would think of the word “map.”
High-Frequency Word
a word that appears often in grade-level text
Words like “and”, “the”, “as” and “it” are high-frequency words.
Encode
using individual sounds to spell a word
Inflectional Affix
an affix that changes the form of the root or base word
The inflectional affix, “ed” changes a verb to the past tense.
Semantic Cue
Use of word, symbol, or speech meanings to comprehend a text
Graphophonic Cue
Use of letter sounds and spelling patterns to decipher new words
Spelling-Based Phonics Approach
an approach to phonics instruction that involves spelling rules and phonemes
In a spelling-based phonics approach, students learn the sounds of each letter and put the sounds together to create a word.
