week 9-12
Word: Sight Words
Definition: A collection of words that a child should learn to recognize without sounding out the letters.
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Importance: Sight words are important because they promote speed and fluency when for beginning readers. Which will ultimately increase reading comprehension.
Word: Schwa
Definition: A vowel sound in English that often occurs in an unstressed syllable, such as the /uh/ sound in the first syllable of the word above.
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Importance: Knowing what the schwa sound is important when learning words and sounding them out when reading.
Word: Digraph
Definition: Two letters that represent one sound. There are consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs, though the term most commonly refers to consonant digraphs. Common digraphs include sh, ch, th, and wh.
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Importance: It is important to know digraphs in order to be able to sound out certain words.
Word: Blends
Definition: A phonics term for an orthographic unit of two or three letters at the beginning or end of words that are blended together.
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Importance: Blending skills are necessary in order to help figure out words when reading.
Word: Phonograms
Definition: Often called word families, phonograms end in high-frequency rimes that vary only in the beginning consonant sound to make a word.
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Importance: Phonograms are important because they have been recognized as a method of developing correct spelling patterns between like words.
Word: Onset
Definition: The initial consonant(s) sound of a single syllable or word.
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Importance: Knowing onsets can help students decode words.
Word: Rime
Definition: A unit composed of the vowel and any following consonants within a syllable.
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Importance: Knowing rimes can also be utilized by readers to decode words.
Word: Word Consciousness
Definition: An attitude of curiosity and attention to words critical for vocabulary development
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Importance: Word consciousness is importance because it helps to further influence students’ vocabulary.
Word: Diphthongs
Definition: A complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllable.
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Importance: Knowing diphthongs is important for both, writing and pronouncing words that contain them.
Word: Ambiguous Vowels
Definition: A vowel sound represented by a variety of different spelling patterns, or vowel patterns that represent a wide range of sounds.
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Importance: Ambiguous vowels are important when spelling words that contain these vowel patterns.
Word: Homophones
Definition: Words that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meaning.
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Importance: Knowing homophones is important because these words have different meanings even though they sound the same, which can be confusing when reading a paper that has a misused homophone.
Word: Homographs
Definition: Words that are spelled alike but have different pronunciations and meanings.
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Importance: Knowing homographs is important because they, too, could cause confusion when the wrong words are used.
Word: Homonyms
Definition: Words that share the same spelling but have different meanings.
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Importance: Knowing homonyms is important because these could also cause confusion for students when trying to write these words.
Word: Affixes
Definition: Most commonly a suffix or prefix attached to a base word, stem, or root.
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Importance: Knowing affixes is important because you can add or delete one to change a words meaning.
Word: Morphemic Analysis
Definition: The process of analyzing or breaking down a word in terms of its meaning units or morphemes
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Importance: Morphemic analysis is important when attempting to sound out a word.
Word: Inflectional Endings
Definition: Suffixes that change the verb tense of a word.
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Importance: These are important for proper speech patterns.
Word: Syllable Juncture
Definition: the transition from one syllable to the next.
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Importance: Knowing syllable junctures is most important when writing.
Word: Domain Specific Academic Vocabulary
Definition: Includes domain-specific vocabulary found in content area, specialized, disciplinary texts, as well as general academic vocabulary used across content areas and disciplines.
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Importance: Domain Specific Vocabulary is important for understand topics, when talking about a certain subject.
Word: General Academic Vocabulary
Definition: Includes domain-specific vocabulary found in content area, specialized, disciplinary texts, as well as general academic vocabulary used across content areas and disciplines.
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Importance: General Academic Vocabulary is important to know so that you can understand what is going on when talking about a certain subject.
Word: Accented Syllables
Definition: The syllable in a word that receives more emphasis when spoken and usually has a clearly pronounced vowel sound.
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Importance: Knowing accented syllables are important when speaking and pronouncing words.
Word: Unaccented Final Syllables
Definition: The syllable in a word that gets little emphasis and may have an indistinct vowel sound.
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Importance: Knowing unaccented final syllables are also crucial when pronouncing words.
Word: Etymology
Definition: The study of the origin and historical development of words.
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Importance: Etymology is important for pronunciation of words.
Word: Stem
Definition: Usually refers to a base or word root together with any derivational affixes that have been added, and to which inflectional endings may be added.
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Importance: Knowing stems are important for identifying words as well as spelling them.
Word: Free Morpheme
Definition: Meaning units of language (morphemes) that stand alone as words
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Importance: Free morphemes are important when developing spelling.
Word: Bound Morpheme
Definition: Meaning units of language (morphemes) that cannot stand alone as a word.
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Importance: Bound morphemes are important for pronunciation and spelling.
Word: Concept Sorts
Definition: A categorization task in which pictures, objects, or words are grouped by shared attributes or meanings to develop concepts and vocabulary.
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Importance: Concept sorts can help develop a students vocabulary as well as test their understanding of the selected concept. .
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