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Understand phonological and phonemic awareness.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| phonological awareness | Is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language. |
| phonemic awareness | Is the foundation of spelling and word recognition. |
| phoneme | The smallest unit of spoken language. |
| rhyming | of a word, syllable, or line) having or ending with an identical or corresponding sound to another |
| segmenting | Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break words down into individual sounds. |
| blending | Listening to a sequence of individual sounds and combining them to pronounce a word. |
| deleting | to remove |
| substituting | to replace |
| explicit | stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt |
| implicit | implied though not plainly expressed |
| distinguishing spoken word | having the full understanding of a word spoken orally |
| syllable | The act of breaking big words down into smaller parts so they can be pronounced and spelled more easily. |
| onsets | is the part of the syllable that precedes the vowel of the syllable |
| rimes | is the part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it |
| English Language Learners | are students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English, who often come from non-English-speaking homes and backgrounds, |
| struggling readers | as low achievers, students with unidentified reading difficulties, dyslexia, and/or with reading, learning or speech/language disabilities. |
| highly proficient readers | is more complex and requires higher level skills in fluency, handling multi-syllable words, comprehension, vocabulary, and skills such as the ability to extract necessary information. |