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RICA: 155 Q/A
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RICA: 155 Q/ADigraph - A pair of characters used to write one phoneme (distinct sound)
ch, ph, ng, qu, sh, th
Phoneme - The smallest contrastive unit in the sound of language
Precommuniative Stage - The child uses letters from the alphabet but
shows no knowledge of letter-sound correspondence
Semiphonetic - Writing that demonstrates some awareness that letters
represent speech sounds, beginning and/or ending consonant sounds of
syllables are represented but medial vowells are omitted
Phonetics - A branch of linguistics that comprise the study of sounds
Phonology - Concerned with the given sounds contribution to the language
of the system
Transitional - Beginning to use visual memory, mayk, maik, make
Etymology - Is the study of the history of words and how their form and
meaning have changed over time
Phonemic Awareness Assessment - Have students identify the sound of
the middle, beginning, or end of the word
Rhyming Texts Benefit (Kindergarten) - Fostering phonological awareness
Difficulty with d and b - Help student focus on directionality of each letter
as student traces it
Alphabetic Principle - Words are composed of letters that represent
sounds, using relationship between letters and phenomes of an unknown
string of letters or to spell
Homophones - Words that sound the same but have different meaning
, Automaticity - The ability to do things without occupying the mind
Intonations - Variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to
distinguish words
Rythyms - A timing pattern among syllables
Dipthong - 2 letters that make one sound
Syllabication - Forming or dividing words into syllables
Context Clues - Built into sentences with difficult word to help decipher
the difficult word
Cross-Cirricular - Example would be incorporating writing skills into every
subject matter
Structural Analysis - Used for reading complex words in upper grades, a
word is divided into multi-letter parts
Retelling - After a child reads a story, they retell the story
Web Diagram - Help students learn to categorize and organize their
thinking about a topic
Graphemes - English letter or letters that represent phonemes
Vowells - Sounds made when the air leaving lungs is vibrated in voice box,
and clear passage from voice box to mouth
Consonants - Sounds that occur when the airflow is obstructed by mouth,
teeth or lips
Onset - Think syllable! The initial consonant sound or blend (first)
Rime - Think syllable! The vowell sound and any consonant sounds that
follow (second)
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