WELL DETAILED
Strephosymbolia - ANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWER the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWER awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken
words
phonics - ANSWER instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWER explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWER the understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
phonology - ANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity
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, prosody - ANSWER the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWER sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWER content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWER smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWER sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWER the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWER awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWER a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWER Enable a person to learn for themselves
grapheme - ANSWER a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
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Strephosymbolia - ANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWER the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWER awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken
words
phonics - ANSWER instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWER explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWER the understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
phonology - ANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity
1
, prosody - ANSWER the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWER sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWER content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWER smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWER sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWER the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWER awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWER a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWER Enable a person to learn for themselves
grapheme - ANSWER a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
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