(Ohio OAE)Study Guide and Answers.
logographic writing system - Answer A writing system in which characters represent words or
phrases
phoneme - Answer in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Early Reader (Stage of Reading Development) - Answer Early readers begin understanding that
reading from the printed page needs to make sense - both from the pictures and from the print
Phoneme Manipulation - Answer The ability to perform phoneme deletion, addition, and
substitution.
capitaliztion - Answer the action of starting a word with a capital letter to signify a certain
characteristic
phoneme segmentation - Answer ability to break down a word into separate sounds, as they
say, and count each sound words
Directionality - Answer the direction in which a language is read
phoneme addition - Answer the ability to make a new word(s) by adding a phoneme to an
existing word
What new word can you make by adding a sound to the beginning of at? Bat, cat, rat, and sat.
Early Fluent/Fluent/ Proficient Reader (Stage of Reading Development) - Answer readers
recognize many words and can apply phonics and word analysis skills to figure out unfamiliar
words
syllabic writing system - Answer a writing system in which each character represents a syllable
punctuation - Answer The marks, such as periods, commas, and parentheses, are used in
writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.
Alphabetic Writing System - Answer a writing system in which there is a symbol for each
consonant and vowel
, Emergent Reader (Stage of Reading Development) - Answer when children understand that
written language has meaning and gives messages
Onset and Rime - Answer the ability to hear and understand that the sound(s) before the
vowel in a syllable is the onset, and the vowel and everything that comes after it in a syllable is
the rime.
Rhyme Awareness / Rhyming - Answer the ability first to hear words that rhyme and then to
be able to produce a rhyme(s)
"Blue" and "Flew" rhyme
Syllable Awareness/Syllabication/Syllable Segmentation - Answer the ability to hear individual
parts/syllables of words
Phoneme Isolation - Answer the ability to hear and recognize the individual sound in words
phoneme deletion - Answer the ability to recognize and understand a word or sound(s) that
remain when a phoneme is removed.
"What is bat without the /b/?" "at"
Alphabetic Principle - Answer The understanding that there is a logical/systematic relationship
between the sounds of spoken English and the letters and letter-patterns of written English.
Language Interference - Answer differences between a learner's native language and the
language being learned, which can cause confusion in the acquisition of the new language
When a learner applies knowledge from one language incorrectly to another language resulting
in word, syntax or pronunciation errors.
Positive Language Transfer - Answer occurs when L1 knowledge facilitates the acquisition of L2
Positive language transfer occurs when students use what they know about sentence structure
in their native language to help them understand sentence structure in the language they are
acquiring.
Phoneme Substitution - Answer substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word