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phoneme segmentation - Answer-refers to the ability to break a word in to separate sounds, saying each sound as it is counted automacity - Answer-refers to a student's ability to process, de-code, and understand written words w/o effort phonological awareness - Answer-the decoding of unfamiliar words depends on the ability to associate sounds w/ written letters coat -> coet bought -> baught this student's spelling demonstrates which type of spelling development characteristic? - Answer-the ability to recognize words are made up of letter patterns representing sounds emergent literacy - Answer-the idea that children grow in to reading and writing w/ no real beginning or endpoint, develop concurrently and in interrelated ways. The learning process starts long before children enter school and does not depend on the mastery of letter-sound skills orthographic - Answer-the reader uses a visual process to see the letter pattern in words open syllable - Answer-ends in a vowel and the sound is long. ex. apron, remembering, vehicle, able rate - Answer-refers to the speed at which a text is read. purpose, genre, difficulty and prior knowledge all affect how quickly a text is read prosody - Answer-the patterns of stress and intonation in a language ALSO the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry A reader who has demonstrated fluency while reading an informational text can now focus on..? - Answer-comprehending the main ideas in a textphonological awareness - Answer-the ability to understand how words in a text are segmented in to syllables rising action - Answer-occurs after the exposition, or introduction, and contains a series of events that build from the conflict and end at the climax of the story chronological order - Answer-the writer organizes events in the order in which they happened. using simple descriptive language to help the reader visualize the process text complexity (quantitative) - Answer-the number of complex and compound sentences in a text primary source - Answer-original documents such as researcher's data