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Sight Word Definition: commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a while by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode. |
SPOON. The child looks at the letters in the words and uses decoding skills. S-P-OO-N |
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Sight Vocabulary Definition: a store of words that a student can identify automatically (or by sight without a need to decode). |
Children hear and see these words all the time so they are able to recognize them almost immediately |
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High Frequency Words Definition: one that children and adults will encounter regularly in reading |
Children see these words so often that they can usually recognize them on sight. |
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Alphabetic Principle Definition: letters and combinations of letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language based on systematic and predictable relationships between written letters, symbols, and spoken words |
Students see letters they recognize, and have a knowledge of the sound that these letters generally make. So they are able to use this principle to sound out words. APPLE: A=ah; P=puh; etc. |
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Phonemic Awareness Defintion: the ability of a listener to be able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes |
Students can hear different sounds that come together to make words and are able to read them aloud |
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Decoding Definition: the ability to read words by translating written symbols into the sounds of spoken language |
A child may come across a word that he or she doesn't recognize and uses his/her phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle to sound it out in order to read it. |
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Onset and Rime Definition: The onset is the initial consonant or consonant cluster of the word, and the rime consists of the vowels and consonants that follow it. |
Ex: in the word bat, b- is the onset, and -at is the rime.
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Dipthong Definition: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another |
Ex: SOIL. The first vowel sound is made by the O but then the mouth has to move in order to pronounce the sound that the I makes. |
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Digraph Definition: a combination of two letters representing one sound |
A child sees two letters such as the ch- in the word CHAIR and realizes that rather than sounding like cee+h, it makes the ch-blend. |
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Blending being able to mentally join speech sounds together to make words helps students to decode unfamiliar words using letter-sound patterns when reading |
Students see letters and are able to put together letter blends, diphthongs, etc. in their heads and are able to use those skills to decode words they don't know. |
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Morpheme Definition: a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided; the smallest unit of a word and cannot be divided |
For example: Nonperishable. Comprised of 3 morphemes: non-, perish, and -able. By putting these three morphemes together, a whole new word is created. |
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Phoneme Definition: any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another. |
Ex: pen, den, ten, zen, etc. By changing one phoneme at the beginning of the word, you create a whole different word. |
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Affix, Prefix, and Suffix Definition: morphemes that are added to the beginning or end of a word that modify the original word's meaning |
Ex: Semipermeable. Semi- is a prefix that means half-way. Meaning that something is half permeable |
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Inflectional ending Definition: a letter or group of letters that is added to the end of a word to change its meaning |
Ex: adding -s to the end of a word to make it plural. One bat, two bats. One ball, two balls. |
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Orthography Definition: the conventional spelling system of a language; the general rules and guidelines that a language follows when it comes to written word |
Ex: rules in English such as i after e except after c. |
