Review for Exam 1

Ability to read like we talk (Sufficient speed to support understanding)

• Decoding

• Fluency

• Vocabulary

• Comprehension

Ability to understand what is read; to learn

• decoding

• comprehension

• prosody

• phoneme

Relationship between letters and sounds

• phoneme awareness

• decoding

• phonics

• orthography

Awareness of speech sounds

• phoneme awareness

• vocabulary

• decoding

• alphabet

history or origin of a word

• morphology

• phonology

• etymology

• pragmatics

Study of word meaning; Vocabulary

• semantics

• phonology

• orthography

• discourse

Study of meaningful word parts

• etymology

• orthography

• vocabulary

• morphology

To break apart the letters of our language (to break the code of sounds and letters)

• comprehension

• decode

• listen

• phonology

Closed sounds

• vowels

• schwa

• consonants

• irregular

Open sounds

• consonants

• schwa sound

• vowels

• irregular