Trathen & Ari                                                                                                                                 RE 3030

Phonics and Word Recognition Concepts

1. Define the following concepts:

Phoneme

Phonemic Awareness

Elkonin Boxes

Spelling

Finger Point Reading

Concept of Word

Phonology -- Phonological

Phonetics

Consonant

Place of Articulation (Bilabial, Alveolar, Velar)

Manner of Articulation (Stop, Fricative, Affricate)

Voiced

Voiceless

Nasal

Vowel

Short Vowels

Long Vowels

Diphthong

Schwa

r-controlled

Phonics

Structural Analysis

Morpheme

Bound Morpheme

Free Morpheme

Inflectional Morpheme

Derivational Morpheme

Morphology

Grapheme

Digraph

Consonant Blend

Orthography

Onset & Rime

Phonogram

Word Families

Homophone

Homograph / Homonym

Syllable

Open Syllable

Closed Syllable

Polysyllabic

CVC words

Lexicon / Lexical

Prefix

Suffix

Sight Words

Syntax / Syntactic

Semantics / Semantic

Invented Spelling

Developmental Stages

 Language Experience (LEA)

 Whole Language

Phonics Instruction

Balanced Instruction

Reading Instruction

Reading Fluency

Reading Rate

Reading Accuracy

Reading Prosody

Reading Comprehension

Schema (schemata)

QAR (question, answer, relationship)

Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA)

Guided Reading

Shared Reading

Choral Reading

Echo Reading

Partner Reading

Instructional Level

Frustration Level

Independent Level

2. Give an example for each of the following concepts.

a word with a consonant blend

a word with a consonant digraph

a one syllable word with a vowel marker (vowel digraph)

two words representing the same phonogram (spelling pattern)

a one syllable word with short a vowel

a one syllable word with short i vowel

a one syllable word with long e vowel

a one syllable word with a diphthong vowel

a one syllable word with an r-controlled vowel

a word with a silent consonant

a word with a consonant blend of three graphemes

a word with hard g sound and a word with soft g sound

a word with hard c sound and a word with soft c sound

two words with different sounds for th

2 examples of words that need to be learned by sight--not phonetically regular

a word with schwa sound, underline the vowel that has the schwa pronunciation

a word with a pre-consonantal nasal

a word with a closed syllable, underline the closed syllable

a word with an open syllable, underline the open syllable

a word with four phonemes, but more than 4 letters

a word with one morpheme

a word with two morphemes, circle each morpheme

a word with a bound morpheme, underline the bound morpheme

a word with an inflectional morpheme, underline the inflectional morpheme

a word with a derivational morpheme, underline the derivational morpheme

two words that are homographs

two words that are homophones (homonyms)

a one syllable word, and separate the onset from the rime