VOCABULARY FROM THE BLUE RIDGE LITERACY
CO EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Phonological Awareness
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phonological awareness is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating
units of oral language - parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes. Children
who have phonological awareness are able to identify and make oral rhymes, can clap
out the number of syllables in a word, and can recognize words with the same initial
sounds like 'money' and 'mother.'
Phonemes
(Phonological Awareness) –
Ans Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken language. Phonemes
combine to form syllables and words. For example, the word 'mat' has three phonemes:
/m/ /a/ /t/. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including sounds
represented by letter combinations such as /th/.
Rhyme
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially
when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Alliteration
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely
connected words. For example, "She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore" or "Peter
Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers" are both alliterative phrases.
Syllable
(phonological Awareness) -
Ans A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding
consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water
and three in inferno.
Onset
,(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term
"rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g.
at in cat). Not all words have onsets.
Rime
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term
"rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g.
at in cat). ... This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words
when writing.
Phonemic Awareness
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate
individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Phonemic Segmentation
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break words down into individual sounds.
For example, the learner breaks the word run into its component sounds - r, u, and n.
Phonemic Blending
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phoneme blending refers to the ability to identify a word when hearing parts of the
word (phonemes or syllables) in isolation. This is a very important step in the
development of literacy, as well as general language development.
Elkonin Boxes
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into
individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and
moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme.
Phonemic Deletion
(Phonological Awareness) –
Ans Phoneme Deletion is the ability to identify how a word would sound if one sound
were omitted. This is a very important step in the development of literacy, as well as
,general language development. A child who is proficient in this skill can tell you that
when the /k/ sound is removed from cat, you get at.
Phonemic Substitution
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans PHONEME SUBSTITUTION is a strategy that helps develop students' phonemic
awareness, which is part of phonological awareness. Phoneme substitution involves
having students manipulate spoken words by substituting certain phonemes for others.
Phoneme substitution tasks take place orally without the written word.
Minimal Pairs
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language
that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme,
and have distinct meanings.
Allophones
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Any of the speech sounds that represent a single phoneme, such as the aspirated
k in kit and the unaspirated k in skit, which are allophones of the phoneme k.
Auditory Discrimination
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Auditory discrimination is the ability to recognize differences in phonemes (the
smallest unit of sound in a language), including the ability to identify words and sounds
that are similar and those that are different.
Print Awareness
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Children with print awareness can begin to understand that written language is
related to oral language. They see that, like spoken language, printed language carries
messages and is a source of both enjoyment and information. Children who lack print
awareness are unlikely to become successful readers. Indeed, children's performance
on print awareness tasks is a very reliable predictor of their future reading achievement.
Alphabetic Principle
(Print Awareness) -
Ans The alphabetic principle is the concept that letters represent speech sounds, and
arrangements of letters represent spoken words.
, Concepts of Print
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Concepts of print refers to the ability of a child to know and recognize the ways in
which print "works" for the purposes of reading, particularly with regard to books.
-Book Handling Skills
-Directionality
-Concept of a Word
-Concept of a Letter
Book Handling Skills
(Print Awareness) -
Ans -Front and Back of Book
-Top and Bottom of Book
-Title
-Title Page
-Author
-Illustrator
Print Directionality
(Print Awareness) -
Ans -Left page is read before right page
-After page is read we turn to the next page
-Text is read left to right
Word Boundaries
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Word boundaries are the beginning and the ending of a word. In writing, word
boundaries are conventionally represented by spaces between words. In speech word
boundaries are determined in various ways, as discussed below.
Alphabetic Language
(Print Awareness) -
Ans
Non-Alphabetic Language
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Non-Alphabetic languages include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Tamil,
Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Hittite, SAnskrit, and Ancient Western
Greek (which was encoded in Linear B, a syllabary writing system).
CO EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Phonological Awareness
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phonological awareness is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating
units of oral language - parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes. Children
who have phonological awareness are able to identify and make oral rhymes, can clap
out the number of syllables in a word, and can recognize words with the same initial
sounds like 'money' and 'mother.'
Phonemes
(Phonological Awareness) –
Ans Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken language. Phonemes
combine to form syllables and words. For example, the word 'mat' has three phonemes:
/m/ /a/ /t/. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including sounds
represented by letter combinations such as /th/.
Rhyme
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially
when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Alliteration
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely
connected words. For example, "She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore" or "Peter
Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers" are both alliterative phrases.
Syllable
(phonological Awareness) -
Ans A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding
consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; e.g., there are two syllables in water
and three in inferno.
Onset
,(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term
"rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g.
at in cat). Not all words have onsets.
Rime
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term
"rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g.
at in cat). ... This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words
when writing.
Phonemic Awareness
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate
individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Phonemic Segmentation
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break words down into individual sounds.
For example, the learner breaks the word run into its component sounds - r, u, and n.
Phonemic Blending
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Phoneme blending refers to the ability to identify a word when hearing parts of the
word (phonemes or syllables) in isolation. This is a very important step in the
development of literacy, as well as general language development.
Elkonin Boxes
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into
individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and
moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme.
Phonemic Deletion
(Phonological Awareness) –
Ans Phoneme Deletion is the ability to identify how a word would sound if one sound
were omitted. This is a very important step in the development of literacy, as well as
,general language development. A child who is proficient in this skill can tell you that
when the /k/ sound is removed from cat, you get at.
Phonemic Substitution
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans PHONEME SUBSTITUTION is a strategy that helps develop students' phonemic
awareness, which is part of phonological awareness. Phoneme substitution involves
having students manipulate spoken words by substituting certain phonemes for others.
Phoneme substitution tasks take place orally without the written word.
Minimal Pairs
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language
that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme,
and have distinct meanings.
Allophones
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Any of the speech sounds that represent a single phoneme, such as the aspirated
k in kit and the unaspirated k in skit, which are allophones of the phoneme k.
Auditory Discrimination
(Phonological Awareness) -
Ans Auditory discrimination is the ability to recognize differences in phonemes (the
smallest unit of sound in a language), including the ability to identify words and sounds
that are similar and those that are different.
Print Awareness
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Children with print awareness can begin to understand that written language is
related to oral language. They see that, like spoken language, printed language carries
messages and is a source of both enjoyment and information. Children who lack print
awareness are unlikely to become successful readers. Indeed, children's performance
on print awareness tasks is a very reliable predictor of their future reading achievement.
Alphabetic Principle
(Print Awareness) -
Ans The alphabetic principle is the concept that letters represent speech sounds, and
arrangements of letters represent spoken words.
, Concepts of Print
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Concepts of print refers to the ability of a child to know and recognize the ways in
which print "works" for the purposes of reading, particularly with regard to books.
-Book Handling Skills
-Directionality
-Concept of a Word
-Concept of a Letter
Book Handling Skills
(Print Awareness) -
Ans -Front and Back of Book
-Top and Bottom of Book
-Title
-Title Page
-Author
-Illustrator
Print Directionality
(Print Awareness) -
Ans -Left page is read before right page
-After page is read we turn to the next page
-Text is read left to right
Word Boundaries
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Word boundaries are the beginning and the ending of a word. In writing, word
boundaries are conventionally represented by spaces between words. In speech word
boundaries are determined in various ways, as discussed below.
Alphabetic Language
(Print Awareness) -
Ans
Non-Alphabetic Language
(Print Awareness) -
Ans Non-Alphabetic languages include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Tamil,
Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Hittite, SAnskrit, and Ancient Western
Greek (which was encoded in Linear B, a syllabary writing system).
