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Phonic Awareness - correct answer✔✔identifying and manipulating individual sounds in
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words- helps students decode and spell words
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EX: what is the first sound in the word cat? /K/
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Phonics - correct answer✔✔the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to
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represent sounds ||\\//||
EX: the letter "B" sounds like /b/ in bat
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Fluency - correct answer✔✔Able to read smoothly and accurately and with expression.
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(you don't have to stop and sound words out)
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Vocabulary - correct answer✔✔The set of words a person understands and knows ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
comprehension - correct answer✔✔Being able to remember and understand what you read ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and hear ||\\//||
Five Pillar of Literacy - correct answer✔✔Phonic awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary,
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Comprehension
POSSUM - correct answer✔✔Phonology, Orthography, Syntax, Semantics, Understanding,
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Morphology
Phonology - correct answer✔✔understanding and putting sounds together to make words
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, EX: What are the sounds in the word BAT? /B/ in ball /ae/ in cat /t/ in top
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Orthography - correct answer✔✔Knowing how to put letters together to form words. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: how is the word spelled? B-A-T
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Syntax - correct answer✔✔making sure the words are in the correct order, so the sentence
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makes sense ||\\//||
EX: "sat the mat on the cat the" --> The cat sat on the mat
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Semantics - correct answer✔✔understanding the different meanings of the word depending ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
on how you use it
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EX: what does the word mean? using the word BANK in riverbank--> you're talking about the
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side of the river
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Understanding - correct answer✔✔knowing what the word means. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: making sense of the information " the sun us hot and bright" you know this means the
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sun makes the weather warm
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Morphology - correct answer✔✔words made up of smaller parts ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: what are the word parts- unhappiness
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Un- prefix ||\\//||
happy- main part ||\\//|| ||\\//||
ness- turns into noun ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
DOGS - plural ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Decoding Skills - correct answer✔✔Ability to sound out new words ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
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Phonic Awareness - correct answer✔✔identifying and manipulating individual sounds in
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words- helps students decode and spell words
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EX: what is the first sound in the word cat? /K/
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Phonics - correct answer✔✔the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to
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represent sounds ||\\//||
EX: the letter "B" sounds like /b/ in bat
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Fluency - correct answer✔✔Able to read smoothly and accurately and with expression.
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(you don't have to stop and sound words out)
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Vocabulary - correct answer✔✔The set of words a person understands and knows ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
comprehension - correct answer✔✔Being able to remember and understand what you read ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and hear ||\\//||
Five Pillar of Literacy - correct answer✔✔Phonic awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary,
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Comprehension
POSSUM - correct answer✔✔Phonology, Orthography, Syntax, Semantics, Understanding,
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Morphology
Phonology - correct answer✔✔understanding and putting sounds together to make words
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, EX: What are the sounds in the word BAT? /B/ in ball /ae/ in cat /t/ in top
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Orthography - correct answer✔✔Knowing how to put letters together to form words. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: how is the word spelled? B-A-T
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Syntax - correct answer✔✔making sure the words are in the correct order, so the sentence
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makes sense ||\\//||
EX: "sat the mat on the cat the" --> The cat sat on the mat
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Semantics - correct answer✔✔understanding the different meanings of the word depending ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
on how you use it
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EX: what does the word mean? using the word BANK in riverbank--> you're talking about the
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side of the river
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Understanding - correct answer✔✔knowing what the word means. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: making sense of the information " the sun us hot and bright" you know this means the
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sun makes the weather warm
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Morphology - correct answer✔✔words made up of smaller parts ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
EX: what are the word parts- unhappiness
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Un- prefix ||\\//||
happy- main part ||\\//|| ||\\//||
ness- turns into noun ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
DOGS - plural ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Decoding Skills - correct answer✔✔Ability to sound out new words ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||