WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?
A few definitions that might help!
- Alphabet Knowledge - knowing the names and sounds having to do with printed letters
- Blending - the ability to put individual sounds together into a recognized word.
- Comprehension - the ability to understand and gain meaning from text.
- Concepts of Print - identify left to right reading progression, top to bottom, identify printed text from pictures, when reaching the end of a sentence return to the next line.
- Decoding (READING) - using knowledge of letter-sound relationships to recognize and pronounce words,sounding out words
- Early Literacy Skills - skills that begin to develop in the preschool years, such as alphabet knowledge, sound awareness, letter writing, print knowledge, and oral language.
- Encoding (SPELLING) - the process of converting the sounds in a spoken word into letters, spelling a word
- Fluency - the ability to read accurately, automatically using proper phrasing, and tone of voice, intonation (prosody) and rate.
- Grapheme - individual written letters
- Nonsense words - a word in which the letters make their most common sounds but the word has no meaning (lof, tos, mep)
- Phoneme - smallest sound unit into which speech can be divided
- Phonological Awareness - the ability to recognize, hear, identify, blend, segment, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words
- Phonics - understanding the relationships between letters and sounds.
- Rhyming - the ability to hear and identify words that belong to the same sound family (sun, fun, run)
- Segmentation - the ability to break words down into individual sounds
- Syllable - a part of a word that contains a vowel or vowel sound