what is the definition of a SYLLABLE ?

• the unit of pronouncation in a word, the English syllable has only one vowel phoneme like beats in a word. (ex; There’s three syllables in sophia).

• not the beats of a word

• diagraphs

• multiple consonants

what is the definition of DIAGRAPHS?

• syllables composted of certain sounds

• multiple consonants

• a grapheme composted of two letters that represents one speech sound (ex; consonant diagraphs = CH, SH, TH, NG. vowel diagraphs = IE, UE, ER, OR, EA

• vowel pronunciation

what is a CONSONANT?

• letters that are vowels such as a,e,i,o,u

• one of the two classifications of speech sounds. there are 21 consonant letters and 25 consonant sounds. (ex; ANY LETTER THAT IS NOT A, E, I, O, U).

• cluster and blend words

• dipthongs

what is a VOWEL?

• one of the two classifications of speech sounds and are made up of A,E,I,O, and U.

• letters that are B,C,D,F,G,H,J, K (etc).

• blended words

• an inventory used for identifying reading skills

what is a BLEND?

• the longest possible cluster in english is three consonant sounds at the start of (ex; SPLASH).

• written form of consonants

• spoken form and occurs when you have two or more letters appearing together where you can hear each sound that consonants make (/s//a//t/).

• graphemes

what is a CLUSTER?

• orthography

• morphology

• a suffix and prefix

• written form where a word is a group of consonants with no vowels between them (ex; br=BRown , tr=TRAIN, and cl = CLOUD

what are DIPTHONGS?

• underwear

• a single vowel phoneme resembling a glide from one sound to another represented by graphemes and make unusual sounds that is not like the letters on their own. (ex; OI IN NOISE. OW IN NOW. EAR IN HEAR, ERE IN HERE).

• words that sound alike

• opposite sounds of words

what is INFORMAL READING INVENTORY (IRI)?

• is not a diagnostic tool

• does not measure reading

• a diagnostic tool that’s used individually to assess student’s reading comprehension, reading accuracy, and reading levels like independent, instructional, and frusrational.

• what is an AFFIX?

what is an AFFIX?

• the amount of syllables in a word

• the definition of words

• a term used when referring to suffixes and prefixes

• used for morphology

what is a SUFFIX?

• a bound morpheme placed at the end of a word (ex; playED).

• a bound morpheme placed at the beginning of a root word to change the meaning or make it specific

• determines decoding

• helps with encoding