GACE 350

Closed Syllable Type

Ends in a consonant and has a short vowel sound like Cat.

Open Syllable Type

Ends in a vowel and has a long vowel sound like Go.

Magic E Syllable Type

A syllable that ends with a silent 'e' which makes the preceding vowel long with a consonant between the vowel and the silent e, as in the word "cake."

Vowel Team Syllable Type

2 Vowels Making 1 Sound like in Boat

R-Controlled Syllable Type

Atleast one vowel then followed by r, such as ar, er, ir, or, and ur like in Star

Consonant - le Syllable Type 

Ends with a consonant and a le like in Turtle

V/C Division

Splitting a word into vowels and consonants in a pattern such a “VCCV, VCV, C-LE, VCCCV, VV, Compound Words, and Affixes

Phoneme

Smallest unit of distingushing one word from another as in p, b, g, and n from Tap, Tab, Tag, and Tan

Eloknin Boxes

A tool used in early education to develop phonemic awareness by helping students segment words into individual sounds or phonemes

High-Frequency Words

Words that most often appear in written and spoken language such as the, as, and is. 

Irregular Words

Words that do not follow typical letter-sound correspondence such as said, was, do, to, what, and they

Letter-Sound Correspondence

The relationship between written letters and the sounds they represent.

Explicit Phonics

A systematic, direct method of teaching the relationship between sounds and letters to help students learn to read and spell

Synthetic Phonics

The method of teaching letter sounds and how to blend them to pronounce words.

Implicit Phonics 

An indirect method of students figuring out what letter and word sounds mean on their own. 

Systematic Phonics

A structured and research-baked approach to teaching phonics

Phonemic Analysis

The ability to recognize sound and symbol relationship in order to identify a word.

Morphemic Analysis

The Process of identifying individual units of meaning called Morphemes within a word such as prefixes, root words, and affixes

Syntactic Analysis 

The process of examining a sentence for grammatical structure, including how words are organized into phrases and clauses and the relationship between them

Orthography

A system of visually representing a language

Rime

Ending part of a syllable such a -at in cat, hat, and bat.

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds into spoken words