EDU 6310

A paraphrase or spontaneous retelling told by children as they turn the pages of a familiar book.

• Memory Reading

• Choral Reading

• Echo Reading

• Pretend Reading

Sounds that are produced when the vocal cords do not vibrate.

• Voiced

• Unvoiced

• Echo Reading

• Vowel Alternation

Sounds that are produced when the vocal cords are vibrating.

• Rime

• Unvoiced

• Onset

• Voiced

A learner-centered, conceptual approach to instruction in phonics, spelling, word recognition, and vocabulary.

• Word Study

• Pretend Reading

• Memory Reading

• Unvoiced

The smallest unit of sound that is heard in spoken language.

• Homograph

• Homophone

• Vowel Markers

• Phoneme

An awareness of various speech sounds such as syllables, rhyme, and individual phonemes.

• Root Word

• Syllables

• Phonological Awareness

• Phonemic Awareness

Refers to the ability to consciously manipulate individual phonemes in a spoken language. Phonemic awareness is often assessed by the ability to tap, count, or push a penny forward for every sound heard in a word.

• Phoneme

• Phonological Awareness

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonograms

The beginning sound(s) that precede(s) the vowel in a syllable.

• Onset

• Rime

• Dipthong

• Schwa

The rest of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it.

• Homograph

• Voiced

• Rime

• Onset

The process of determining the pronunciation and/or meaning of a word by analyzing word parts including syllables, base words, and affixes.

• Word Study

• Structural Analysis

• Language Experience Approach

• Etymology