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Strephosymbolia - ANSWERSmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWERSthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWERSthe ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWERSawareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWERSinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWERSexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWERSthe understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
consonant - ANSWERSblocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds
with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - ANSWERSopen and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced
by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - ANSWERSthe rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWERSreading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody
prosody - ANSWERSthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWERSset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWERSsentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWERScontent of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWERSsmallest unit of sound in a syllable
,spelling - ANSWERSsound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWERSthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWERSmemory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWERSawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWERSa method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWERSmeans to discover by demonstration
grapheme - ANSWERSa letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWERSword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWERSfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - ANSWERSsymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - ANSWERSthe smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix, prefix, root
or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly depend
on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - ANSWERSthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / / m /
continuant sound - ANSWERSa sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound - ANSWERSa sound obstructed / they must be clipped off / b / / d
/
aspiration - ANSWERSpuff of air
Norman Invasion - ANSWERS1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w and u, also the dot for
the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - ANSWERSAnglo-
Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with th: this, these, bath - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with wh: why, while, when - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words that end in ff, ll ss Floss Words - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with silent letters: walk, should, thumb, listen - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Wild Old Words: mind, most, kind - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Strephosymbolia - ANSWERSmeans twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWERSthe study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWERSthe ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWERSawareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWERSinstruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWERSexplicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWERSthe understanding that spoken sounds are represented
in print by written letters
consonant - ANSWERSblocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds
with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - ANSWERSopen and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced
by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - ANSWERSthe rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWERSreading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody
prosody - ANSWERSthe rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWERSset of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWERSsentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWERScontent of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
phoneme - ANSWERSsmallest unit of sound in a syllable
,spelling - ANSWERSsound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWERSthe spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWERSmemory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWERSawareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWERSa method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWERSmeans to discover by demonstration
grapheme - ANSWERSa letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWERSword recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWERSfusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - ANSWERSsymbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - ANSWERSthe smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix, prefix, root
or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly depend
on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - ANSWERSthe study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - ANSWERSa sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / / m /
continuant sound - ANSWERSa sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound - ANSWERSa sound obstructed / they must be clipped off / b / / d
/
aspiration - ANSWERSpuff of air
Norman Invasion - ANSWERS1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w and u, also the dot for
the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - ANSWERSAnglo-
Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with th: this, these, bath - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with wh: why, while, when - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
One-syllable words that end in ff, ll ss Floss Words - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Short words with silent letters: walk, should, thumb, listen - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
Wild Old Words: mind, most, kind - ANSWERSAnglo-Saxon
