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Accuracy - correct answer ✔✔This is the ability to recognize or decode words correctly
affix - correct answer ✔✔Most commonly a suffix or prefix attached to a base word, stem, or root
aliteracy - correct answer ✔✔Students who can read fairly well but choose not to
alliteration - correct answer ✔✔The occurrence in a phrase or line of speech of two or more words
having the same beginning sound. Example: big burly bears bashed berry baskets
alphabetic principle - correct answer ✔✔1. The principle that letters are used to represent individual
phonemes in the spoken word (Moats, 2020). 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct
symbols (letters), each denoting a single sound
analogy phonics - correct answer ✔✔In this approach, students learn how to use a phonogram, or rime,
in a familiar word to identify an unfamiliar word having the same rime (Honig et al., 2018). *Formerly
described as Decoding by Analogy. To be used in conjunction with synthetic phonics
analytic phonics - correct answer ✔✔Word study that divides words into their elemental parts through
phonemic, orthographic, and morphological analysis (Bear et al., 2016). *To be used in conjunction with
synthetic phonics.
automaticity - correct answer ✔✔Refers to the speed and accuracy of word recognition and spelling. Is
the goal of word study instruction and frees cognitive resources for comprehension
base word - correct answer ✔✔A word to which prefixes and/or suffixes are added. For example, the
base word of unwholesome is whole (Bear et al., 2016). *See also root word. *See also free morphemes.
blends - correct answer ✔✔A phonics term for an orthographic unit of two or three letters at the
beginning or end of words that are blended together. There are l-blends such as bl, cl, and fl; r-blends
, such as gr, tr, and pr; s-blends such as pc, scr, and squ; and final blends such as ft, rd, and st. Every sound
represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly
bound morpheme - correct answer ✔✔Meaning units of the language (morphemes) that cannot stand
alone as a word. Respected has three bound morphemes: re+spect+ed (Bear et al., 2016). *See also free
morpheme
choral reading - correct answer ✔✔Oral reading done in unison with another person or persons
closed sort - correct answer ✔✔Word or picture sort based on predetermined categories
closed syllable - correct answer ✔✔1. A syllable that ends with or is "closed" by a consonant sound (Bear
et al., 2016). 2. A syllable ending in one or more consonants and having a short-vowel sound spelled with
one vowel letter. VC, CVC, CCVC, CVCC (Honig et al., 2018).
cognates - correct answer ✔✔Words in different languages derived from the same root
compound word - correct answer ✔✔Words made up of two or more smaller words. A word may or may
not be hyphenated, depending on its part of speech
Concepts About Print (CAP) - correct answer ✔✔Understandings about how books are organized (front-
to-back page turning, titles, illustrations), how print is oriented on the page (top to bottom, left to right),
and features of print such as punctuation and capitalizations
consonant - correct answer ✔✔Letters that are not vowels (a, e, i, o, u). Whereas vowel sounds are
thought of as musical, consonant sounds are known for their noise and the way in which air is
constricted as it is stopped and released or forced through the vocal tract, mouth, teeth, and lips
consonant blend - correct answer ✔✔1. Two or more consonants in which you can hear both sounds
blended. The word blend begins and ends with a consonant blend (Cunningham, 2017). 2. Every sound
represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly