Glossary of Literacy Terms
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- Knowledge acquired through everyday experiences
- Background knowledge
- The understandings a child has about the rules and practices that govern written language
- Concepts of print
- Making sense of the text
- Constructing meaning
- Using information from the surrounding text to identify the word
- Context cues
- Spelling that is the standard
- Conventional spelling
- Any of the various sources of information that may aid identification of a word - graphophonics, semantic, syntactic & orthodgraphic
- Cueing Systems
- Analyzing text in order to identify and understand individual words
- Decoding
- A reader who is developing an association of print with meaning
- Emergent Reader
- The relationship between the letters and the letter sounds of a language
- Graphophonics
- An experienced reader provides structure and purpose and models strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence
- Guided Reading
- A method by which an experienced reader provides structure and purpose, and models strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence
- Guided Reading
- Graphophonic, Semantic, Syntactic and Orthographic
- Cueing Systems
- An attempt by beginning writers to spell a word when the standard spelling is unknown
- Invented spelling
- A pre-reading activity to activate prior knowledge and support understanding
- KWL
- A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dicgtated language
- Language Experience Approach
- Awareness of the sound system of spoken language including individual sounds, rhyming, components of words, etc.
- Phonemic Awareness
- The letter/sound relationships in language and the relationship of spelling patterns to sound patterns
- Phonics