Phonemic Awareness Terms

Terms

 

Phonological Awareness The ability to recognize and manipulate the sound properties of spoken words, such as syllables, initial sounds, rhyming parts, and phonemes.

Phonemic Awareness The ability to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words, it has nothing directly to do with letters. It is an awareness of the sounds in spoken language. It is a mental linguistic skill.

Phonics Has to do with printed language. It deals with the letters and the various sounds represented by those letters. It is an academic skills.

Phoneme The smallest unit of sound in spoken words.

Grapheme is a written symbol that represents a sound (phoneme). 

Syllable Awareness The ability to hear and manipulate syllables in spoken words.

Onset-Rime Segmentation is the process of breaking or separating words into two parts: the onset, which is the consonant or cluster of consonants at the start of a syllable, and the rime, the remainder of the syllable. For example, in the word 'climb', cl- is the onset, and -imb is the rime.

Blending Putting sounds together.

Segmenting Pulling sounds apart.

Orthographic Mapping is the mental process we use to permanently store words for immediate, effortless retrieval. It is the process we use to take an unfamiliar printed word and turn it into an immediately recognizable sight word.

Elkonin Boxes

Sound Chaining

Sound-Symbol Association

Decoding

Encoding

Breve Symbol is a small arc above the vowel, the vowel is the short sound