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Affix
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A morpheme or meaningful part of a word attached before or after a root or base word to modify its meaning; a category that includes prefixes and suffixes.
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Alphabetic Principle
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The use of letters and letter combinations to represent phonemes in an orthography.
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Automaticity
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Fluent performance without the conscious deployment of attention
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Base word
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A free morpheme, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin, to which affixes can be added.
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Blend
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A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such as cl, br, or st; also called "consonant blend."
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Book talk
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A discussion of one or more books by a teacher, librarian, or student to introduce books and to induce others to read them.
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Bound morpheme
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A morpheme, usually of Latin origin in English, that cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings. A bound root (such as –fer) has meaning only in combination with a prefix and/or a suffix.
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Cloze procedure
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Any of several ways of measuring a person's ability to restore omitted portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context.
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Comprehension Monitoring
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The mental act of knowing when one does and does not understand what one is reading.
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Consonant
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A phoneme that is not a vowel and is formed with obstruction of the flow of air with the teeth, lips, or tongue; also called a closed sound in some instructional programs; English has 40 or more consonants; also may refer to an alphabet letter used in representing any of these sounds.
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