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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 with prosody
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
orthographic memory - Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - Answer: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - Answer: a method of leading students to new learning through questioning
Heuristic - Answer: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to determine a word
blending - Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - Answer: the 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.
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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 with prosody
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
orthographic memory - Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - Answer: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - Answer: a method of leading students to new learning through questioning
Heuristic - Answer: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to determine a word
blending - Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
reading - Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - Answer: the 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.
