Terms

The relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. The goal of this instruction is to teach students the most common sound-spelling relationships so that they can decode, or sound out, words. This is the connection of oral to print.

• Phonological Awareness

• Alphabetic Knowledge

• Phonics

^{It is the ability to recognize that words are made up of a variety of sound units.}

^{The term encompasses a number of sound related skills necessary for a person to develop as a reader.}

^{Mostly done orally but letters can be added.}

• Phonological Awareness

• Alphabetic Knowledge

• Phonics

It is the understanding that spoken words are decomposed into phonemes, and that the letters in written words represent the phonemes in spoken words when spoken words are represented in text.

• Phonological Awareness

• Alphabetic Knowledge

• Phonics

It is the individual sounds that makeup words. Some letters have more than one sound (e.g., long and short vowel sounds). Some sounds can be represented by more than one letter (for example, a /k/ sound can be written with the letter C or the letter K, or even CK).

• phoneme

• onset

• rime

It is the part of a syllable which consists of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it.

• phoneme

• onset

• rime

It is the part of the syllable that precedes the vowel of a syllable.

• phoneme

• onset

• rime