Foundations of reading MTEL 190
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Phonological awareness
Ans: Sounds of language
sound units vary in sizes
whole sentences, words, syllables, rimes
Phonemic Awareness
Ans: Smallest unit of sound in language
only level of phoneme
Particular kind of phonological awareness
Phonics
Ans: the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds
Concepts of Print
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Ans: Basic understanding about the way print works including the direction of print, spacing,
punctuation, letters, and words
Alphabetic Principle
Ans: Recognition that phonemes are represented by graphemes (letters and sounds)
graphemes represent phonemes
Syllables
Ans: Parts of words that contain one and only one vowel sound
ex. Hat= one syllable
Heat= one syllable but has two vowel letters -ONLY ONE VOWEL sound
Clap hands together and find them
Rhyming
Ans: Phonological awareness Skill
recognize some words sound alike
onsets= do not need to be the same
Rimes= do have have to be spelled the same to rhyme
Phoneme blending
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Ans: putting sounds together
Phoneme segmenting
Ans: Taking apart syllables or words into separate phonemes
onsets
Ans: consonants that go before the rimes
/bl/= blue
rimes
Ans: part of syllables that begin with the vowel and extend to the end of the syllable
/ew/= chew
consonance
Ans: repetition of a consonant sound usually the end or middle of words
ex. school- the l sound
black- the k sound
Assonance
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Ans: repetition of vowel sounds usually in the middle or end of words - NO RHYMING
Words start with a vowel- involves repetition of vowels
ex. Lake -a sound
Onomatopoeia
Ans: Words that make the same sound as it sounds
ex. bang, meow
Automaticity
Ans: Reading with accuracy and speed
contributes to fluency
Fluency
Ans: reading running records with text accuracy, quickly and with prosody
necessary but not sufficient for comprehension
Grapheme