READ 3005 Vocabulary

A syllable that is added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of a word to change the word's meaning

• Affix

• Cloze

• Genre

• Vowel

The assumption underlying alphabetical language systems that each sound has a corresponding graphic representation (or letter)

• Concepts about Print

• Alphabetic Principle

• Formative Assessment

• Phonemic Awareness

Words with opposite meanings

• Onset

• Diphthong

• Synonyms

• Antonyms

An activity in which children replace words that have been deleted from the text.

• Fluency

• Echo Reading

• Cloze

• Rime

A new word formed with two or more words that has its own meaning; it can be spelled as one word, joined with a hyphen, or spelled as separate words

• Compound Word

• Genre

• Schema

• Homophones

The process of constructing meaning using both the author's text and the reader's background knowledge for a specific purpose

• shared reading

• metacognition

• echo reading

• comprehension

Assesses young students' concepts of written language, book orientation, directionality of print, and letter and word concepts.

• Fluency

• Concepts of Print

• Lexile Scores

• Shared Reading

Two or three adjacent consonants that represent a single, distinguishable sound (eg., bl-, dr-, sm-)

• Consonant Blend

• Diphthong

• Morpheme

• Phonogram

Two adjacent consonants that represent a sound not represented by either consonant alone (eg., th-, ch-, sh-)

• Affix

• Prefix

• Consonant Diagraph

• Simile

A sound produced when the tongue glides from one sound to another; it's represented by two vowels

• Diphthong

• Simile

• Synonym

• Onset