Important Literacy Terms
Literacy Terms Defined
Alphabetic principle
Book Awareness
Consonant Blend
Diagraph (vowel)
Fluency
Grapheme
Language experience approach
Onset patterns
Phoneme awareness
Phoneme Blending
Phoneme
Phonological awareness
Print awareness
Rime
Sight words
Suffix
Literary Terms: Reading
Genre
Alphabetic principle
- Many letters in English map reasonably well onto sounds
Book Awareness
- An awareness of how books work
Consonant Blend
- When you take two letters, put them together in a word, and you hear both sounds.
Diagraph (vowel)
- Two vowels side by side that make one sound
Fluency
- Includes reading rate, word accuracy, and prosody. Being able to read with fluency has a different impact with comprehension.
Grapheme
- Written or printed representation of a phoneme
Language experience approach
- Writing through personal experience and oral language
Onset patterns
- Initial consonants found at the beginning of syllables and words
Phoneme awareness
- Occurs when children become aware of individual phonemes in our language and can manipulate them in different ways
Phoneme Blending
- The ability to take the small sounds in a word and blend them together to make a word.
Phoneme
- The smallest unit of speech sound
Phonological awareness
- Exists when children become consciously aware that language is an object that may be analyzed and manipulated by them in different ways
Print awareness
- Awareness of how print works. For example, moving from left to right when you read.
Rime
- The end of the word, comes after the onset (beginning of the word)
Sight words
- Any word that a child has learned by sight
Suffix
- Letters put at the end of the word (base) that changes the meaning
Literary Terms: Reading
Genre
- The type of story or literary work.
- Person who writes the story book.
- Where and when a story takes place.
- The sequence of events in a story.
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