UFORA important terms

phonemic blending

ability to combine a sequence of speech sounds (phonemes) together to form a word

beginning readers use their skill in phonemic blending and their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to sound out and blend the sounds of simple printed words

phonological awareness

awareness that oral language is composed of smaller units (spoken words and syllables)

continuum of phonological awareness skills

segmenting sentences into words

blending and segmenting syllables and onset/rime

identifying and producing rhyming words and alliteration

phonemic awareness

a specific type of phonological awareness that involves the ability to distinguish and manipulate the individual phonemes in spoken words

strategies to build phonemic awareness

increasing the complexity of an instructional task incrementally

strategies for supporting development of and reinforcement in various emergent reading development

encouraging use of phonetic spelling reinforces phonemic awareness

understanding of the alphabetic principle

knowledge of letter-sound correspondences

developing awareness of left-to-right directionality

promoting letter knowledge

matching upper-lowercase letters

matching letters in different forms

putting letters in alphabetical order

visual drill with letter names

skywriting letters

tracing letters on desk

sand writing

actual writing

alphabetic principle

the understanding that letters represent the sounds of spoken language (phonemes)

the understanding that phonemes have a predictable, systematic relationship to letters and letter combinations

letter-sound correspondence

the link between a sound (phoneme) and a letter (grapheme)