| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Prefixes & Suffixes | Affixes |
| Repetition of the initial consonant | Alliteration |
| Consonant vowel consonant | CVC |
| Going from Print to Spoken word | Decoding |
| Early stages of conventional literacy | Emergent literacy |
| Going from Spoken to Written word | Encoding |
| Language experience Reading program | Students use own experiences, discussions, no text, big charts |
| Use moment in direct, incidental, informal phonics during reading & writing to convey relationships between letters & sounds | Whole language-appropriate |
| Trade or library books | Literature based reading program |
| Smallest meaningful unit (prefix, suffix, root words) | Morpheme |
| Minimal speech sound (44 sounds, 26 letters) | Phonemes |
| Identifying individual sounds,phonemes, in language | Phonemic Awareness |
| What ends sounds the same | Rhyme |
| Simplest form of the word | Root word |
| Teacher presents the letter sounds according to the curriculum | Systematic, explicit, direct phonic instruction |
| Unobstructd flow of air when you say them | Vowels |
| Incidental approach to phonics instruction | Whole language |
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