EDU 233 Final final

Question 1

Alphabetic Principle

Answer 1

Is the Principle, or that is a 1:1 correspondence between graphemes and phonemes ( Letters and Sounds)

Question 2

Morphemic Analysis

Answer 2

To analyze a word by breaking it into its indiviual morphemes, in order to better understand the word.

Question 3

Ambiguous Vowels

Answer 3

Refers to the fact that vowels don’t behave in English

Question 4

Word Study

Answer 4

The process of Studying words. This an instructional approach for teaching learners how to read and spell.

Question 5

Spelling Inventory

Answer 5

An Assessment which asks the students to spell carefully selected set of words that grow increasingly difficult..

Question 6

Braid of Literacy

Answer 6

A representation of literacy as woven set skills. That includes writing, orthography, vocabulary, oral literacy and familiarity with authentic stories and informational texts.

Question 7

Affix

Answer 7

Any word that is attached to a root; maybe a suffix, or inflectional ending.

Question 8

RRWWT

Answer 8

Read to, Read With, Write With, Word study and Talk With

Question 9

Emergent Stage

Answer 9

Learners experiment and imitate stage. They are exploring concepts of print including directionality, features of print, word boundaries, and predictability of text.

Question 10

Letter name alphabetic stage

Answer 10

Learners are beginning to read and write in a conventional way. Their Knowledge of letter names solidified, and they often invent spellings based on the letter name.

Question 11

With Word pattern stage

Answer 11

Learners in this stage have a much firmer grasp on the phonemes they hear in words and can encode many of them into familiar orthographic patterns.

Question 12

Syllables and Affixes Stage

Answer 12

Learners can sell multi-syllable words. They know in the process of learning how syllable is added to roots

Question 13

Derivational Stage

Answer 13

The Knowledge that learners have about spelling and vocabulary is now growing through the process of derivation.

Question 14

Morphemes

Answer 14

The Smallest Unit of meaning in language

Question 15

Syllable

Answer 15

Phonemes that constitute a larger unit of sound within a word, beyond the phoneme level; a syllable must contain a vowel sound

Question 16

Words Families

Answer 16

Words that share an ending, called a rime. These letter combinations are sometimes called phonograms.

Question 17

Rime

Answer 17

The vowel sound and any others that follow it in a syllable

Question 18

Onset

Answer 18

The beginning consonant sounds before the vowel sound in a syllable

Question 19

Vowel Digraph

Answer 19

Two letters together that represent one vowel sound.

Question 20

Continuant Consonant

Answer 20

A Consonant that can be stretched out with a continuous sound such as /m/

Question 21

Vowel

Answer 21

Phonemes where the air flows through the mouth unobstructed

Question 22

Schwa

Answer 22

The vowel sound of an unaccented syllable in English. The symbol is upside-down e

Question 23

Dipthong

Answer 23

Phoneme where the mouth glides from vowel sound directly into another. Like oi in oil

Question 24

Consonants

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Phonemes where the flow of air is cut off partially or completely.

Question 25

Encode

Answer 25

Is translate spoken oral language into symbols

Question 26

Decode

Answer 26

To take written letters and translate them into sound phonemes. Opposite of encoding

Question 27

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 27

The understanding that words are made up of individual sounds (phonemes). This a subcategory of phonological awareness.

Question 28

Phonological Awareness

Answer 28

Awareness of units of speech, such as words, syllables, and phonemes

Question 29

Graphemes

Answer 29

Letters - written symbols that represent phonemes

Question 30

Phoneme

Answer 30

basic sound unit of speech

Question 31

Orthography

Answer 31

The spelling system of a language

Question 32

Phonics

Answer 32

The relationship between the sounds of language and letter or letter combinations used represent those sounds.