Literacy Terms
Alphabet knowledge: recognizing letters of the alphabet.
Assessment: a way to evaluate reading development and proficiency.
Buddy reading: pairing a child from an upper grade with a younger child.
Choral chanting: the entire class, or a small group of children, reads a passage together.
Comprehension: the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.
Concepts of print: knowledge about books: how to hold them, move from left to right, front to back.
Decoding: the combination of phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and sound knowledge that
enables us to break down new and unfamiliar words.
Echo chanting: the teacher reads one line of text and the child then reads the same line.
Emergent reading: the time between birth and when children begin to read and write in conventional ways.
Encoding: the combination of phonemic awareness, letter, and sound knowledge
that enables us to spell words by translating sounds into letters.
Fluency: the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
Language acquisition: the stages of listening and speaking development.
Language proficiency: the level at which a person can speak and understand a language.
Letter identification: recognizing the letters of the alphabet.
Letter-sound relationship: recognizing the letters of the alphabet and their accompanying sounds.
Mental imagery: the skill of visualizing what you see after you have been read to.
Partner reading: involves peers reading together.
Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear and identify sounds in spoken words
Phonics: the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
Vocabulary: the words students must know to communicate effectively.
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