What is Phonological Awareness? - ANSWER The ability to hear and manipulate the spo-
ken parts of words and sentences.
What is Phonemic Awareness? - ANSWER The ability to work with the individual sound or
phoneme in spoken words.
What are the different Phonemic Awareness Skills? - ANSWER Isolation, segmentation,
blending, addition, deletion, and substitution.
What is isolation in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to identify and articulate
individual sounds in specific positions within a word, such as the beginning, middle, or end.
(EX: the first sound in the word cat is /c/.)
What is segmentation in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to break down a
word into its individual sounds or phonemes in order. (EX: what are the sounds in the word
boat? /b/ /oa/ /t/.)
What is blending in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to combine individual
sounds (phonemes) to form a whole word. (EX: what word has the sounds /c/ /l/ /o/ /p/?
clop.)
What is addition in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to add a phoneme to an
existing word to create a new word. (EX: take the word plan and add a /t/ sound at the end.
plant)
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,What is deletion in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to remove a phoneme
from a word and create a new word. (EX: take the word ground and remove the /g/ sound.
round)
What is substitution in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to replace one pho-
neme in a word with another phoneme to create a new word. (EX: take the word top and
change the /t/ sound to a /h/ sound. hop)
What IS Phonemic awareness? - ANSWER - means being able to pick out (isolate) and
move around with the different sounds in words.
- foundation of reading and spelling
- is the alphabetic principle
- teaches that letters stand for sounds in language
- activities include putting sounds together to make words, breaking words down into indi-
vidual sounds, and changing sounds to make new words.
What phonemic awareness is NOT. - ANSWER - not the same as phonics, phonics is about
matching sounds to letters.
- not about knowing what whole words mean, it is just about sounds.
- not about looking, you do not need to see words to hear them.
Phoneme grapheme mapping - ANSWER The matching of phonemes (sounds) in words
with the graphemes (letters) that represent them.
- Helpful for students dealing with challenges such as dyslexia or limited english skills.
Phoneme - ANSWER The smallest unit of sound in spoken language that distinguishes
one word from another.
Grapheme - ANSWER A written representation of a sound (phoneme) using one or more
letters.
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, What are the 3 components of fluency? - ANSWER - Rate
-Accuracy
- Prosody
Accuracy (fluency) - ANSWER - reading with few errors
- allows readers to understand what they are reading without stumbling over unfamiliar
words
Rate/Automaticity (fluency) - ANSWER - speed at which a person reads
- a good rate allows readers to maintain comprehension and engagement with the text
Prosody (fluency) - ANSWER - reading with appropriate expression, intonation, and
phrasing
- about reading with feeling and understanding the punctuation and structure of sentences
to convey the meaning effectively.
What are the parts of Mechanics of Fluency? - ANSWER - word decoding fluency skills
- text decoding fluency skills
- comprehension fluency skills
What are word decoding fluency skills? - ANSWER focus on recognizing and decoding
words efficiently.
What are text decoding fluency skills? - ANSWER involve applying decoding strategies to
larger segments of text to support overall reading fluency.
What are comprehension fluency skills? - ANSWER crucial for understanding and making
sense of the text being read, which is an important part of fluency.
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ken parts of words and sentences.
What is Phonemic Awareness? - ANSWER The ability to work with the individual sound or
phoneme in spoken words.
What are the different Phonemic Awareness Skills? - ANSWER Isolation, segmentation,
blending, addition, deletion, and substitution.
What is isolation in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to identify and articulate
individual sounds in specific positions within a word, such as the beginning, middle, or end.
(EX: the first sound in the word cat is /c/.)
What is segmentation in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to break down a
word into its individual sounds or phonemes in order. (EX: what are the sounds in the word
boat? /b/ /oa/ /t/.)
What is blending in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to combine individual
sounds (phonemes) to form a whole word. (EX: what word has the sounds /c/ /l/ /o/ /p/?
clop.)
What is addition in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to add a phoneme to an
existing word to create a new word. (EX: take the word plan and add a /t/ sound at the end.
plant)
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,What is deletion in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to remove a phoneme
from a word and create a new word. (EX: take the word ground and remove the /g/ sound.
round)
What is substitution in phonemic awareness? - ANSWER The ability to replace one pho-
neme in a word with another phoneme to create a new word. (EX: take the word top and
change the /t/ sound to a /h/ sound. hop)
What IS Phonemic awareness? - ANSWER - means being able to pick out (isolate) and
move around with the different sounds in words.
- foundation of reading and spelling
- is the alphabetic principle
- teaches that letters stand for sounds in language
- activities include putting sounds together to make words, breaking words down into indi-
vidual sounds, and changing sounds to make new words.
What phonemic awareness is NOT. - ANSWER - not the same as phonics, phonics is about
matching sounds to letters.
- not about knowing what whole words mean, it is just about sounds.
- not about looking, you do not need to see words to hear them.
Phoneme grapheme mapping - ANSWER The matching of phonemes (sounds) in words
with the graphemes (letters) that represent them.
- Helpful for students dealing with challenges such as dyslexia or limited english skills.
Phoneme - ANSWER The smallest unit of sound in spoken language that distinguishes
one word from another.
Grapheme - ANSWER A written representation of a sound (phoneme) using one or more
letters.
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, What are the 3 components of fluency? - ANSWER - Rate
-Accuracy
- Prosody
Accuracy (fluency) - ANSWER - reading with few errors
- allows readers to understand what they are reading without stumbling over unfamiliar
words
Rate/Automaticity (fluency) - ANSWER - speed at which a person reads
- a good rate allows readers to maintain comprehension and engagement with the text
Prosody (fluency) - ANSWER - reading with appropriate expression, intonation, and
phrasing
- about reading with feeling and understanding the punctuation and structure of sentences
to convey the meaning effectively.
What are the parts of Mechanics of Fluency? - ANSWER - word decoding fluency skills
- text decoding fluency skills
- comprehension fluency skills
What are word decoding fluency skills? - ANSWER focus on recognizing and decoding
words efficiently.
What are text decoding fluency skills? - ANSWER involve applying decoding strategies to
larger segments of text to support overall reading fluency.
What are comprehension fluency skills? - ANSWER crucial for understanding and making
sense of the text being read, which is an important part of fluency.
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