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Video-based Reading Strategies and Technique: Phonemic Awareness

Glossary

  1. Onset - An onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the onset of bag is b-; of swim is sw-).
    (* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonemic Awareness Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy)
  2. Phoneme - A phoneme is the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words.
    (* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonemic Awareness Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy)
  3. Phonemic awareness -Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to focus on and manipulate phonemes in spoken words.
    (*Source - Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read, Reports of the Subgroups, Chapter 2, Part I: Phonemic Awareness Instruction, Executive Summary)
  4. Rime - A rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (the rime of bag is -ag; of swim, -im).
    (* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonemic Awareness Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy)
  5. Shared Reading - Shared Reading is an interactive process where children and teachers read together reading and rereading from bigbooks, poems, nursery rhymes with a specific purpose (enjoyment, specific skill work, fluency, etc.).
    (* Source - Cunningham, P.M. and Allington, R.L. (2003) Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.)
  6. Syllabication - Syllabication is the act of breaking words into syllables.
    (* Source - Reading Glossary, from Reading Rockets, WETA, PBS)
  7. Syllable - A syllable is a word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent; news-pa-per; ver-y).
    (* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonemic Awareness Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy)