Academic Language For Phonics Teachers 1

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Affixes

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An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

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Breve

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A written or printed mark (˘) indicating a short or unstressed vowel.

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Consonant

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A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.

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Consonantblends/clusters

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are groups of two or three consonants in words that makes a distinct consonantsound, such as "bl" or "spl."

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Consonant le Syllables

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1. appear only as the last syllable of a multi-syllabic word.

2. always have three letters: a consonant followed bythe letters l and e.

3. pronounced by blending the first consonant andthe l. The e is silent.

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Derivational Suffix

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Suffixes are used to make (or derive) new words. In particular, they are used to change a word from one grammatical class to another.

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Homographs

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Each of two or more words spelled the same but not necessarily pronounced the same and having different meanings and origins (e.g., bow and bow).

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Compound Word

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Combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning. There are three types of compounds: Those written as single words, with no hyphenation, are called closed compounds--the word "flowerpot," for example.

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Onsets

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The segment of a syllable preceding the nucleus, as the gr in great.

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Consonant Digraphs

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Are two (or three) letters that come together to make one sound. The difference between blends and digraphs is that blends are two letters that make two sounds and digraphs make one sound.

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Decode

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Use visual, syntactic, or semantic cues to make meaning from words and sentences

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Diphthong

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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 (as in coin, loud, and side ).

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Roots

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A morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification.

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Morphemes

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A meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g., in, come, -ing, forming incoming ).

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Long Vowels

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Pronounced the same as the name of the letter. For example, the "U" is pronounced like "you," not like "a" which would be the sound of a short vowel. Sometimes a long vowel is combined with another vowel.

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Inflected Endings

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Group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning. Some inflectional endings are: -s. bat. bats

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Homophones

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Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, e.g., new and knew.

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Macron

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A written or printed mark (¯) used to indicate a long vowel in some languages and phonetic transcription systems, or a stressed vowel in verse.

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Encode

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Involves listening for the phonemes/sounds and deciding which letters represent those phonemes/sounds. Also known as spelling!

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Phonemes

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Any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.

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Base Word

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Word that can have a prefix or a suffix added to it. When a prefix or suffix is added to a base word, the word's meaning changes and a new word is formed.