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academic language - Correct Answerwritten or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; language that is most often used in academic discourse or text.
adjective - Correct AnswerA part of ...
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academic language - Correct Answerwritten or spoken language that is more
stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; language that is most
often used in academic discourse or text.
adjective - Correct AnswerA part of speech that describes a noun or person (e.g.,
windy, blue).
adverb - Correct AnswerA part of speech that describes a verd, adjective, or
adverb (e.g., sadly, crookedly).
affricate - Correct AnswerA speech sound with features of both a fricative and a
stop; in English, /ch/ and /j/ are ________.
allophones - Correct AnswerSlight alterations to pronunciation of phonemes
resulting from phonemes overlapping with one another in a spoken word; these
variations of pronunciation are predictable and unconscious, as most speakers
make them.
allophonic variation - Correct AnswerThe slightly different pronunciation of a
phoneme, depending on its place in a word; for example, automatic nasalizing of
a vowel before a nasal consonant.
alphabetic principle - Correct AnswerThe concept that letters are used to
represent individual phonemes in the spoken word; insight into this principle is
critical for learning to read and spell.
antonym - Correct AnswerA word that overlaps with another word, but which has
the opposite meaning.
automaticity - Correct AnswerThe ability to read quickly and accurately without
conscious effort.
, background knowledge - Correct AnswerPreexisting knowledge of facts and ideas
necessary to make inferences.
base words - Correct AnswerWords that can stand on their own, or can serve as
part of another word, as a free morpheme.
benchmark - Correct AnswerA standard or a set of standards used as a threshold
for predicting future risk for reading difficulty.
blend - Correct AnswerTwo or three graphemes, each one representing a
phoneme (e.g., the s-c-r in scrape); a ________ is not one sound, but two or three
adjacent consonants before or after a vowel in a syllable.
characters - Correct AnswerThe protagonist or who the story is about, plus
optional secondary people or animals whose roles within the story help the plot
to unfold.
clause - Correct AnswerA group of words that has a subject and a predicate and
functions as a unit.
closed syllable - Correct AnswerA syllable with a short vowel spelled with a single
vowel letter and ending in one or more consonants (e.g., hat, kit-ten).
coarticulation - Correct AnswerOccurs when phonemes are spoken together to
produce syllables or words and the features of these phonemes are affected by
the speech sounds that precede or follow them.
code switching - Correct AnswerThe conscious effort to write and/or speak in a
certain way, depending on the social context and/or whether the language is
spoken or writter.
cognate - Correct AnswerA word in one language that shares a common ancestor
and common meanings with a word in another language. Many Spanish words,
such as "problema" or "diagrama," are ________ that are built around the same
Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, or roots that English words also employ.
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