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Affix: A group of letters added to the beginning or end of a base word to change its
meaning (e.g., un- in unhappy or -ful in helpful).
Active Learning: A learning process where students connect new information
with what they already know, actively thinking and engaging with the material.
Allophone: A slight variation of a speech sound, depending on the surrounding
sounds (e.g., the t sound in top, stop, and butter).
Analytic: A method that breaks a whole into smaller parts for better understanding,
such as analyzing a word by separating it into individual sounds or components.
Angular Gyrus: A region in the brain that helps with connecting visual and verbal
information, especially useful in reading.
Anomaly: Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
ARD (Advanced Reading Deck): A teaching tool used to help students focus on
letter recognition, often used in reading instruction.
Auditory Discrimination: The ability to distinguish between different sounds in
speech, crucial for learning how to read and write.
Base Word: A simple word that has no added prefixes or suffixes (e.g., play, run).
Benchmark Measures: Assessments used to evaluate a student's progress at
specific points in time, often at the end of a term or practice period.
Breve: A mark used above a vowel to show it is pronounced as a short sound (e.g.,
in cat).
Broca's Area: Part of the brain involved in producing speech and understanding
its structure, especially related to word articulation.
Broca's Aphasia: A language disorder where a person struggles to speak but can
understand language.
Cedilla: A small mark placed under a c to change its sound, as in façade, where it
sounds like s.
Chameleon Prefix: A prefix that changes its form to fit with the following letters,
like in- becoming ir- before words starting with r (e.g., irregular).
Circumflex: A mark placed over a vowel to indicate a change in pronunciation,
often showing an accented syllable or a diphthong.
Coarticulation: The blending of adjacent speech sounds so that one sound
influences the next, making speech more fluid.
Combination: Two letters that work together to produce a single sound, like ch in
chip.
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