correspon- dences before they are blended to form syllables or whole
words
7. alphabetic principle: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
8. consonant: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
9. vowel: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
10.phonology: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
, language
11.fluency: reading with rapidity and automaticity
12.prosody: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
13.pragmatics: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of lan- guage, rules we communicate by
14.syntax: sentence structure, grammar, usage
15.semantics: content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us - meaning
16.phoneme: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
17.spelling: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
18.orthography: the spelling of written language
19.orthographic memory: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
20.metalinguistics: awareness of language as an entity
21.guided discovery: a method of leading students to new learning
through ques- tioning
22.Heuristic: means to discover by demonstration
23.grapheme: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech
sound
,24.decoding: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
25.blending: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful
units
26.reading: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
27.morpheme: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as
cat, man. etc.
, Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling
ability greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of
morphemes.
28.morphology: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units
that make words
29.fricative: a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
30.nasal sound: a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n /
/m/
31.continuant sound: a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
32.stop consonant sound: a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off /
b//d/
33.aspiration: puff of air
34.Norman Invasion: 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words
like furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who
added w and u, also the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet
complete at 26 letters
35.Number words one to a thousand: Anglo-Saxon
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