FTCE Elementary Education (K-6)

FTCE Elementary Education (K-6) Phonological Awareness The ability of the reader to recognize the sound of spoken language Phonemic awareness The idea that words are composed of sounds Alphabetic principle Also called graphophonemic awareness; it describes the understanding that written words are composed of patterns of letters that represent the sounds of spoken words Morphology The study of word structure Syntax Refers to the rules or patterned relationships that correctly create phrases and sentences from words Semantics Refers to the meaning expressed when words are arranged in a specific way Pragmatics The difference between the writer's meaning and the literal meaning of the sentence based on social context Decode to change communication signals into messages Encode to change a message into symbols Reading comprehension requires that the reader learn the code in which a message is written and be able to decode it to get the message Fluency in reading depends on automatic word identification Prosody versification of text and involves such matters as which syllable of a word is accented Plot the series of events in a story Setting the place, or location, where a story occurs Theme the underlying message that a writer wants to convey Mood the atmosphere or attitude the writer conveys through descriptive language Topic what a paragraph or story is about Main idea the important idea(s) that the author wants the reader to know about a topic Topic sentence indicates what a passage is about Paragraph