Literacy Terms

2. All the sounds that come before the vowel
5. The smallest unit of written language that is made up of a letter or group of letters whether it carries meaning or corresponds to a single phoneme- there are 250 in English
8. The smallest unit of speech- there are 44 in English
11. Words that follow regular phonetic spelling patterns of English (he,we,be,me,she)
13. The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
14. Visual building blocks of written word
15. Words that do not conform to regular spelling patterns in English for at least part of the word (were, does)
16. A skill that directly corresponds to encoding or spelling. Students hear a whole word and break the word into all the individual sounds they hear.

1. A skill that directly correlates to phonic decoding. Students hear sounds(phonemes) spoken aloud and blend the sounds to make a word.
3. A student's bank of words that are instantly and effortlessly recognized; includes both regularly spelled and irregularly spelled. These words are a part of a student's spoken vocabulary. They are automatically read, but not necessarily spelled.
4. Words that occur most often in written English, including articles, common nouns, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs.
6. A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.
7. understanding that spoken words are made of individual sounds called phonemes
9. Largest unit of language
10. The smallest unit of meaning in a word that cannot be further divided
12. The vowel and all the sounds after in a word