Literacy Assessment and Phonics Practice Flashcards

Vocabulary and terminology from lecture notes regarding phonics assessments (NWF, CLS, WRC), syllable types, irregular words, and spelling stages based on Bear et al. (2012).

Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)

An assessment on mCLASS that measures the alphabetic principle and basic phonics

Silent e words

Words like “cake”, where the ‘e’ makes the vowel long

Vowel team

Two vowels working together to make one sound (ea, ee)

Diphthong

Vowel sounds that glide in the mouth (oi, ou)

Try One, Try the Other (TOTO)

Strategy for decoding unknown words with vowel teams by trying both vowel sounds in the unknown vowel team word

Temporarily irregular word

A word that does not follow a student’s learned spelling patterns

Permanently irregular word

A word like “said”, which does not follow expected spelling patterns

Heart word strategy

Marking irregular parts of a word with a heart to signal that it is a word/word part that needs to be learned by heart

Orthographic mapping

Mental process of storing written words in long term memory so you don’t have to sound them out

CLS

Stands for correct letter sounds; the number of letter sounds produced correctly in one minute

WRC

Stands for words recoded correctly; the number of pseudo-words read correctly as a whole word

ea

Vowel team with 3 possible pronunciations: /ar{e}/ (eat), /reve{e}/ (bread), /ar{a}/ (steak)

Sight word

Any word a student can recognize automatically by sight

High frequency word

A word that appears often in printed text, which may or may not be a sight word

Soft c and g

Consonants that usually occur before e, i, or y (e.g., cent, giraffe)

Spelling Stages (Bear et al., 2012)

Emergent, Letter name alphabetic, Within word pattern, Syllables & affixes, and Derivational relations

Closed syllable

Syllable with a single vowel followed by a consonant, making the vowel short (e.g., cat)

Open syllable

Syllable that ends in a vowel, making it long (e.g., go)

Spot and Dot strategy

A method for identifying syllable division using visual cues and syllable type rules: spot the vowel, dot it, connect the dots, and divide based on rule

Jobs of silent-e

1. makes the vowel sound long; 2. can make c and g soft; 3. keeps i, u, and v from being the last letter in a word; 4. can show that the word is not plural; 5. adds a vowel to syllables with the consonant + l - e syllable pattern; 6. makes TH say its second sound, $/th/$

Syllable Types

Closed, Open, Silent e (VCE), Vowel Team/Diphthong, R-Controlled, and Consonant-le

rumble (example)

An example of a Consonant-le syllable

goat (example)

An example of a Vowel team syllable