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RED 4310 Vocabulary
Vocabulary for phonemic awareness and college class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Phoneme | The smallest sound unit in a language (screening assessments, diagnostic, progress monitoring) |
| Digraph | A combination of two letters representing one sound, as in ph and ey (reliability, validity, criterion/norm referenced) |
| Syllable | Unit of spoken language (constructivism, behaviorism) |
| Phonogram | character respresenting word or sound (enviornmental print, sight words, print concepts) |
| Phonics | reading method involving letter recognition (language experiance approach, interactive writing) |
| Phonemic Awareness | conscious awareness and knowledge that words are composed of separate sounds or phonemes (blending, segmentation, isolation,identification, deletion, addition, categorizing, substituting, rhyming) |
| Grapheme | a written symbol, letter, or combination of letters that represents a single sound (onset, rime, fluency, automacity, prosody) |
| Macron | mark indicating long sound (comprehension) |
| Closed Syllable | a syllable that has a consonant at its end (basal reader, decoder) |
| Consonant Blend | A combination of two or more consecutive consonants within a word. (Zone of proximal development) |
| Dipthong | two vowels as one syllable as in "a" and "i" in "rail" (Cognitive language development) |
| Consonant | speech sound other than vowel |
| Vowel | speech sound other than consonant (usually a,e,i,o, & u) |
| Synonym | word meaning same as another |
| Antonym | Word meaning opposite of another |
| Phonology | study of speech sounds |
| Orthography | study of correct spelling |
| Morphology | structure of words |
| Syntax | organization of words in sentences |
| Semantic | relating to meaning or the differences between meanings of words or symbols |
| Etymology | study of word origins |
| Pragmatics | study of language in use |
| Morpheme | smallest unit of speech |
| Schema Theory | understanding knowledge-how knowledge is represented and how it is used |