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phonics
study of relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used
as a
descriptor for code-based instruction
phonemic awareness
conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds (consonants and vowels)
in
spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds
syllable
unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel; it may or may not have a
consonant after the vowel
orthography
writing system for representing language
morphophonemic
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English orthography is morphophonemic, which means that it is a deep
alphabetic
writing system organized by both “sound-symbol” correspondences and
morphology
morpheme
smallest meaningful unit of language; it may be a word or a part of a word; it
may
be a single sound (plural /s/), one syllable (suffix -ful), or multiple syllables
(prefix
inter-)
cognate
word in one language that shares a common ancestor and common meanings
with a
word in another language. Many Spanish words, such as problema or digrama
are
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cognates that are built around the same Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, or
roots
that English words also employ.
metalinguistic awareness
ability to think about and reflect on the structure of language itself; the
invention of
the alphabet was an achievement in metalinguistic awareness.
decoding
ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge
of sound-symbol correspondences
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b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized.
Which is a characteristic of discourse in spoken language? a. It generally uses
complete, well-formed sentences. b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be
disorganized. c. It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary. d. Its sounds are
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coarticulated in words.
a. As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important than
oral
reading fluency.
Which statement best describes the relative importance of oral reading fluency
and
verbal comprehension as factors in reading comprehension? a. As children get
older, verbal comprehension becomes more important than oral reading fluency.
b.
Oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are equally important
throughout
childhood and adolescence. c. As children get older, verbal comprehension
matters
less, and oral reading fluency becomes more important. d. Although oral reading
fluency and verbal comprehension are both important, a child with problems in
one