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onset and rime - ✔✔parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger than phonemics
phoneme - ✔✔the smallest part of SPOKEN language
grapheme - ✔✔the smallest part of WRITTEN language
phonics - ✔✔the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes
phonemic awareness - ✔✔the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken
langauge
onset - ✔✔the initial consonant sound of a syllable (in bag is 'b' or swim is 'sw')
rime - ✔✔part of a syllable that contains a vowel and all that follows it (in bag is 'ag' or in swim is 'im')
phonological awareness - ✔✔the broad term that includes the ability to hear, identify, and
the focus of phonemic awareness - ✔✔narrow-to identify and manipulate individual sounds in words
the focus of phonological awareness - ✔✔broad-identifying and manipulating larger parts of spoken
langauge, like words, syllables, onsets and rimes; uses awareness of rhyming, alliteration, and intonation
What does phonemic awareness do? - ✔✔helps children learn to read and spell
, When is phonemic awareness instruction most effective? - ✔✔when children are taught to manipulate
phonemes by using letters of the alphabet
How many types of phoneme manipulation are most effective for students to use? - ✔✔Children should
focus on 1 or 2 types of phoneme awareness
fluency - ✔✔to read a text accurately and quickly
fluent readers - ✔✔can concentrate on meaning and less on decoding words
metacognition - ✔✔thinking about thinking
affixes - ✔✔prefixes and suffixes, word parts that are 'fixed' to each other
base word - ✔✔words from which other words are formed
morphology - ✔✔studies the building blocks of language
phonology - ✔✔studies the important sounds in a language
phonetics - ✔✔studies all speech sounds in a language and the way they are produced
discourse analysis - ✔✔studies longer spoken verbal exchanges, and written texts
pragmatics - ✔✔studies how different contexts and social settings impact the way language is used
semantics - ✔✔studies meaning in language