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Phonemic Awareness
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The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words
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Phonological Awareness
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The understanding that language is an object and can be manipulated while also being aware of individual words and syllables as objects
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Phonics
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Understanding the relationship between letters and sounds
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Sight Word
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A word that is recognized instantly without having to resort to phonics or context use
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Phoneme
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Smallest single unit of sound in a language
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Grapheme
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Written or printed representation of a phoneme
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit of meaning in a language
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Phonics instruction involves teaching students what 2 elements?
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1) The relationship between letters and sounds 2) How to blend sounds represented by letters
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Single ____ contain the most consistent relationship between letters and sounds.
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Consonants
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Lingustically, consonants are sounds produced by no restriction in the airstream. (T/F)
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False.
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2 different consonant letters that appear together and represent a single sound or phoneme, not usually associated with either letter.
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Consonant digraphs
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Two or three consecutive consonants, each representing a separate phoneme that is blended together.
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Consonant blend
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What percentage of school children may need intensive phonics instruction in order to learn to read?
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30%
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How many readers that are not reading at grade level will ever catch up to their peers and read at grade level?
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1 in 8
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Teaching phonics makes sense because....?
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At least half of all English words are predictable and therefore decodable and teachable.
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