Key Concepts in Linguistics Terms for Teaching

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Alphabetic Principle

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Understanding that letters represent sounds

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Phonological Awareness

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Ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in spoken language

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Phonemic Awareness

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Ability to focus on and manipulate individual phonemes

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Phonics

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Relationship between letters and sounds

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit of sound

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Vowels

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A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y

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Consonants

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All letters except vowels

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Short vowel sounds

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Vowel sounds that are short

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Long vowel sounds

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Vowel sounds that are long

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Consonant clusters

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Groups of consonants without intervening vowels