Foundation Skills Flashcards
(29 cards)
Phonological awareness
Identifying units of oral language, including part of words.
Phonemic awareness
Understanding individual in words.
Phonics
Understanding the individual sounds in words. (Graphemes)
Phonemes
Individual sounds in words. Expressed without a written letter
Syllables
Units of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants. Ex: wa-ter
Onset
Beginning consonant and consonant clusters. Ex: T in Tack.
Rimes
Vowel and consonant that follow the onset. Ex: track the rime is -ack
Blending
Ability to string together the sounds that each letter stands for in the word. Ex: bl in black.
Segmenting
Separating sounds.
Substituting
Replacing one phoneme with another in a word. Ex: car with a sub for T. Makes Tar.
Deleting
Take words apart, remove one sound.
Phonics in literacy development
Phonics map certain sounds in words based on written letters.
Morphology
Study of words and their forms. Smallest of meanings.
Letter-sound correspondence
Certain letter and combinations of letters make specific sounds.
Spelling conventions
Rule English words follow.
High-frequency
These are sight words. Occur most often in the English language.
Decodable words
Can be sounded out and follow letter-sound and spelling convention as rule. Ex: ex-pe-ct
Roots
Part of the word, without prefix or suffix. Basic meaning of word.
Affixes
Part of word added to the beginning and end of word- prefix and suffix
Structural analysis
Process of breaking words apart by prefix, suffix, and roots.
Compound words
Two words put together. Ex: mailman or sidewalk
Language acquisition stage 1
Pre-production- listening and deciphering vocabulary.
Early production stage 2
About 1000 new words. Students form short phrases
Speech emergence 3
3000 words and students will communicate with simple phrases.
