1.Phoneme: smallest part of spoken language that makes difference in
the mean- ing of words. if has two phoneme /i/ /f/ chech /ch/ /e/ /k/
2.Grapheme: smallest part of written language that represent a
phoneme in the spelling of a word
3.Phonemic awareness: ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the
individual sounds phoneme in words. The understanding that that
sounds work together to make words. Helps in reading
4.Decoding: analysis of spoken or written symbols in order to
understand their meaning
5.blending: when children combine individual phonemes to form words.
6.morpheme: unit of meaning that cannot be divided into smaller
elements such as the word "book"
7.semantics: the analysis and study of meaning of words, phrases and
sentences
8.syntax: examination of various ways that words combine to create
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, meaning, the study of how sentences are formed
9.Fast mapping: young children are able to use context to arrive at a
quick guess of a words meaning
10.Reading assessments: formal and informal reading assessments.
Aphabet knowledge, concepts about print, phonemic awareness,
phonics test, high frequen- cy word recognition, oral reading inventory,
spelling inventory.
11.How to teach phonemic awareness: 1. teacher says "im going to say
the sounds in the word jam. 2. say the word out loud 3. write the
word down, 4. read the word together
12.Phonological awareness: not the same as phonemic awareness.
Phonemic awareness is narrow-identifying and manipulating individual
sounds. Phonological awareness is broad- includes identifying and
manipulating larger parts of spoken language such as words, syllables,
onsets and rhymes as well as phonemes
13.phonics: teaches children the relationship between the
letters(graphemes) of written language and the individual
sounds(phonemes) of spoken language. Criti- sism is the english
spellings are too irregular for phonics to help.
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