Consonant Digraph - ANStwo consonants that make a single consonant sound when together in
a word
Graphophonic Cue - ANSUse of letter sounds and spelling patterns to decipher new words
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ANSThe state foundation curriculum developed
by the State Board of Education, that requires all students to demonstrate the knowledge and
skills necessary to read, write, compute, problem solve, think critically, apply technology, and
communicate across all subject areas
Long Vowel - ANSWhen a vowel sounds like its name, this is called a long vowel sound.
Decoding - ANSIn reading out loud, being able to sound out words by breaking them into simple
forms. In reading for comprehension, the understanding of how to read each letter or letter
pattern in a word to determine the word's meaning
Morphology - ANSThe study of forms of words, including affixes, roots, stems, and parts of
speech.
Synthetic Phonics Approach - ANSan accelerated approach to phonics instruction that explicitly
teaches how to convert letters into sounds (phonemes) and then blend the sounds to form
words.
Cognates - ANSWords in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and
pronunciation.
Decodable Word - ANSwords that follow common letter/sound correspondence rules and can be
"sounded out"
Sight Word - ANSword that cannot be decoded because it doesn't follow standard phonics rules
and must be recognized by sight
Sight Word Instruction - ANSthe approach taken when teaching high frequency, often irregular
words to early readers
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle - ANSUsing the relationship between symbols (letters and
words) and sounds of a language to read and write
R-Controlled Vowel - ANSa vowel followed by the letter r where the "r" that doesn't make its
normal short or long sound
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