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What principle is the understanding that words are composed of letters and that there is a relationship between printed letters and spoken sounds?
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The alphabetic principle, which as children develop they come to realize that phonemes can be represented by letters.
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What is graphophomemic knowledge?
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Graphophonemic knowledge is the understanding of the relationship between a grapheme and a phoneme - its letter/sound correspondence (the phoneme c in camp is the grapheme /k/ in camp
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What is encoding?
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Encoding is the process of going from sound to print. Encoding relates to spelling.
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What is the first step in spelling development?
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The first step in spelling development is the association of phonemes (sounds) with graphemes (letters and letter combinations)
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What is decoding?
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Decoding is the process of using letter/sound correspondences to recognize words. Decoding relates to reading.
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What is a pseudoword?
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A pseudoword is "word" in which letters make their most common sounds, but the word has no commonly recognized meaning.
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What will help a child remember specific letters of the alphabet?
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Children's familiarity with an object related to a particular letter of the alphabet helps them remember that letter.
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How can teachers use pseudowords (nonsense words) to assess children?
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The teacher uses nonsense words to assess whether students are able to apply their ability to use sound/symbol relationships to decode a group of letters that follow a regular phonetic patterns but do not spell the acutal word.
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Invented spelling indicates the childs understanding of what?
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Invented spelling indicates that the child has a beginning understanding of sound/letter relationships.
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Understanding letter-sound association, sound-blending, segmenting, manipulating letter-sound correspondence in words, reading pseudo-words, letter identification, and word identification are all what kind of skills
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Alaphbetical principle
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