Phonological Awareness & Phonics Instruction Flashcards

A morpheme is best described as:

Answer: The smallest meaningful unit of language

A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning, such as the prefix 'un-,' the suffix '-ed,' or a free morpheme like the base word 'play.'

Phonological awareness includes the understanding that:

Answer: Spoken words are composed of smaller sound units that can be identified and manipulated

Phonological awareness encompasses the understanding that spoken language is made up of smaller sound units — including words, syllables, and phonemes — that can be consciously identified and manipulated.

Phoneme manipulation refers to:

Answer: Deliberately adding, deleting, or substituting phonemes within spoken words

Phoneme manipulation involves intentionally changing words by adding, deleting, or substituting phonemes and represents the highest, most demanding level of phonological awareness skill.

A vowel-consonant-e (VCe) syllable type is also commonly called a:

Answer: Magic e or silent e syllable

The VCe syllable type — where a silent 'e' at the end causes the preceding vowel to say its long sound — is commonly called a 'magic e' or 'silent e' syllable, as seen in words like 'cake,' 'bike,' and 'note.'

Automaticity in phonics decoding refers to:

Answer: The ability to apply letter-sound correspondences quickly and effortlessly without conscious attention

Automaticity means decoding skills have become so well practiced that they operate quickly and without conscious effort, freeing working memory and cognitive resources for reading comprehension.

A phoneme isolation task requires a student to:

Answer: Identify and state a specific phoneme within a spoken word, such as the first, last, or middle sound

Phoneme isolation tasks ask students to identify a particular phoneme in a specific position within a spoken word, such as stating that the first sound in 'dog' is /d/.

Encoding from dictation in dyslexia therapy involves:

Answer: Listening to spoken words or sentences and writing the corresponding letters or words

Encoding from dictation requires students to listen to spoken words or sentences and convert those sounds into written form, directly practicing the spelling side of the reading-writing relationship.