Phonics

Smallest unit of speech sound in a word

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

• Bound Morpheme

• Morpheme

Written symbol representing a sound

• Phoneme

• Graheme

• Orthography

• Morpheme

Art of correct spelling and writing words

• Fluency

• Orthography

• Grapheme

• Decoding

Linking letters to specific sounds

• Decoding

• Reading Comprehension

• Segmenting

• Orthographic Mapping

Study of words and their parts

• Morphology

• Fluency

• Morpheme

• language Comprehension

Smallest meaningful unit of meaning

• Morphology

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Grapheme

Morpheme only part of words, like -s in "ships"

• Bound Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Free Morpheme

• Grapheme

Stand-alone word like 'dog'

• Bound Morpheme

• Language Comprehension

• Free Morpheme

• Phoneme

Identifying individual sounds in a word

• Segmenting

• Decoding

• Blending

• Substituting

Joining individual sounds to form a word

• Fluency

• Segmenting

• Blending

• Decoding