CALT

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