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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$the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters consonant - Answer$blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed vowel - Answer$open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract phonology - Answer$the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language fluency - Answer$reading with rapidity and automaticity prosody - Answer$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