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Two *letters* that spell *one* sound (sh, ch) - ✔✔Diagraph
Two or more consonants, when combined make a certain sound and two
sounds are heard (bl). - ✔✔Blend
Two vowels, when combined make a certain *sound* and not necessarily
the sound of either vowel present (oy, ow). - ✔✔Dipthong
The initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat). - ✔✔Onset
The string of letters that follow the initial phonological unit, usually a vowel
and final consonants (e.g. at in cat). - ✔✔Rime
Step between shared reading and independent reading. Usually has small
groups/read independently/teacher support through discussion, strategies,
and vocabulary. - ✔✔Guided Reading
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,An instructional activity in which students become the teacher in small
group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help students learn to guide
group discussions using four strategies: 1) summarizing, 2) question
generating, 3) clarifying, and 4) predicting. Once students have learned the
strategies, they take turns assuming the role of teacher in leading a
dialogue about what has been read. - ✔✔Reciprocal Teaching
Counting numbers. - ✔✔Cardinal Numbers
Order or rank. 1st, 2nd, 3rd. - ✔✔Ordinal Numbers
Name - zip code or player on a team. - ✔✔Nominal Numbers
Like looking in a mirror. 4+0=4 - ✔✔Additive Identity Property
the way in which you group three or more numbers when adding does not
change their sum - a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c - ✔✔Associative Property of
Addition
a + b = b + a - ✔✔Commutative Property of Addition
a(b + c) = ab + ac - ✔✔Distributive Property
If one shape can become another using turns, flips and/or slides. -
✔✔Congruent Shape
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,A parallelogram with opposite equal acute angles, opposite equal obtuse
angles, and four equal sides. Any parallelogram with equal sides, including
a square. - ✔✔Rhombus
Sequencing objects from first to last. - ✔✔Seriation
The mental activity of slicing the length of an object into equal-sized units. -
✔✔Partitioning
If object A is longer than object B and object B is longer than object c, then
object a is longer than object c. - ✔✔Transitivity
Young children begin to learn to count by saying numbers in the correct
order without any sense of one-to-one correspondence. - ✔✔Rote
Counting
When a child learns to count with one-to-one correspondence. -
✔✔Rational Counting
Don't have to recount everything. Is an addition strategy. 8+4 Child starts
with the eight and then adds and additional four. - ✔✔Counting-On
When children add by beginning with number 1 to count. 8+4= They count
the eight and then count the four. - ✔✔Counting-All
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, Open ended and lead to independent thinking. - ✔✔Divergent Questions
Seek a single or right answer. - ✔✔Convergent Questions
Smallest unit of sound. - ✔✔Phoneme
Modifying instruction for each student through 1) content, 2) process, 3)
product and 4) learning environment. - ✔✔Differentiated Instruction
Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension. - ✔✔5
Elements of Effective Reading Instruction (Reading First)
Matching words or pictures with sounds. It is the beginning of making a
connection between sound and letter. The specific ability to notice, think
about, manipulate and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in
spoken words. It is the foundation for spelling and word recognition skills. It
is one of the best predictors of how well children will learn to read during
the first two years of school instruction. - ✔✔Phonemic Awareness (not the
same as phonological awareness).
"What is the first sound in MAT? - ✔✔Phoneme Isolation
(What is the common sound?) "Tell me the sound that is the same in MAT,
MUG, and MILE." - ✔✔Phoneme Identity
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