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Strephosymbolia - ANSWER-means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used
for dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWER-the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWER-the ability to focus on units of sound in
spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWER-awareness of speech sounds or phonemes
in spoken words
phonics - ANSWER-instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWER-explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWER-the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - ANSWER-blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - ANSWER-open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - ANSWER-the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency - ANSWER-reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - ANSWER-the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWER-set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWER-sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWER-content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us - meaning
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phoneme - ANSWER-smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWER-sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography - ANSWER-the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWER-memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWER-awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWER-a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic - ANSWER-means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - ANSWER-a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech
sound
decoding - ANSWER-word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
blending - ANSWER-fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading - ANSWER-symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - ANSWER-the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat,
man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability
greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - ANSWER-the study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative - ANSWER-a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - ANSWER-a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose /
n//m/
continuant sound - ANSWER-a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound - ANSWER-a sound obstructed / they must be clipped
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off / b / / d /
aspiration - ANSWER-puff of air
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Norman Invasion - ANSWER-1066 A.D., had a great effect on English
language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought
words like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who
added w and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at
26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - ANSWER-Anglo-
Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - ANSWER-
Anglo-Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Short words with th: this, these, bath - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with wh: why, while, when - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words that end in ff, ll ss Floss Words - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon
Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - ANSWER-Anglo-Saxon