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QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Strephosymbolia - CORRECT ANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
phonetics - CORRECT ANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to focus on units of sound
in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - CORRECT ANSWER awareness of speech sounds or
phonemes in spoken words
phonics - CORRECT ANSWER instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - CORRECT ANSWER explicitly teaches individual grapheme-
phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWER the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - CORRECT ANSWER blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - CORRECT ANSWER open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
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phonology - CORRECT ANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency - CORRECT ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody
prosody - CORRECT ANSWER the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior
and use of language, rules we communicate by
semantics - CORRECT ANSWER content of language, used to express knowledge of
the world around us - meaning
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - CORRECT ANSWER sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography - CORRECT ANSWER the spelling of written language
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orthographic memory - CORRECT ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - CORRECT ANSWER a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic - CORRECT ANSWER means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - CORRECT ANSWER a letter or letter cluster that represents a single
speech sound
decoding - CORRECT ANSWER word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
blending - CORRECT ANSWER fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading - CORRECT ANSWER symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix,
prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
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Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly depend
on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - CORRECT ANSWER the study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative - CORRECT ANSWER a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - CORRECT ANSWER a sound produced by forcing air out through th
nose / n / / m /
continuant sound - CORRECT ANSWER a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s
//f/
stop consonant sound - CORRECT ANSWER a sound obstructed / they must be
clipped off / b / / d /
aspiration - CORRECT ANSWER puff of air
Norman Invasion - CORRECT ANSWER 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English
language, William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like
furniture, painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w and u, also
the dot for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
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