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Print awareness is knowing about the forms and functions.

Three elements

Functions of Print

Conventions of Print

Book Conventions

Preschool and Kindergarten is a great time to establish this to our students

How do we teach print awareness?

Read- Aloud

I learned that how to handle a book or where to start is what comes along with print awareness. The students who are falling behind while taking the benchmarks will have specific support in print awareness. Environmental prints are signs children see when they are around their community or school. Environmental print helps understand the concept of connecting words and pictures to understand the meaning.

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Print awareness: an important pre-reading skill.

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letter iconicity

the name of a letter contains the sound that the letter represents

Letter knowledge's main focus is name identification and identifying the main sound that goes with the letter

There are phases of writing development

prealphabetic (toddler-preschool)

early alphabetic (late preschool- Kinder)

later alphabetic (Kinder-2nd)

consolidated alphabetic (3rd and up)

Letter names and sounds can be taught together

Letter names help students get familiar with their sound

Knowing letter names allows us to label letters

I learned that handwriting is important for many reasons. Handwriting improves students' memory, and it also helps students improve their spelling.

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Open Court Alphabet Song: Sep 4, 2020 11:35 AM

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Phonological awareness,

you are gaining skills that take time to develop and are needed for reading and spelling.

Phonological awareness is important for the earliest stages of life.

Phonemic awareness.

the ability to notice, think, and work with sounds in spoken words

consonants and vowels.

A phoneme is the smallest segment of speech.

we look for systematic, explicit, practice, and assessment drives instruction.

Onset

The consonant, consonant blend within a syllable that comes before a vowel

rime

The part of the syllable that contains the vowel and any remaining consonants

There are lots of activities or videos to watch to learn this topic because it could be confusing, so I linked a helpful video

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Phonics

1. teaching the connection between phonemes and graphemes

1. helps make the words

2. Phonic abbreviations

1. C= consonant

1. Ex: b, m, or p

2. V= vowel

1. Ex: a, e, I, o, u

3. CVC- Consonant Vowel Consonant

1. Ex: cat, pet, pin, rug

4. CCVC= Consonant Consonant Vowel Consonant

1. Ex: keep, sleep, beep

5. CVCE= consonant vowel consonant silent e

1. Ex: tape or rope

3. Phonic Skills

1. Consonant blend

1. Ex: Bl as in blue

2. Consonant digraphs

Ex: Ch or sh

3. R controlled vowels

1. Ex: fear

4. Long vowels

1. Ex: Team

5. Diphthongs

1. Ex: Crown

I learned that decoding is looking at a word and connecting the letter and sounds and then blending all those sounds. Decoding is an essential skill for reading development.

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Ehri's Phases of Word Reading Development

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Irregular words are words that contain one or more sound or spelling correspondence that a student doesn't know which means they can't "decode" the word.

There are two types of irregular words which are permanently and temporarily.

Permanently

Words that have one or more sounds or spelling that are rule-breakers and not pronounced (said or two)

Temporarily

It will start off irregular because a certain sound hasn't been learned yet (why or for)

High-frequency word

100 words that account for almost 50% of words that are used in text

Guidelines for Teaching Irregular Words

introduce high-frequency words before low-frequency

Do not introduce too many words at once

introduce new words before they appear in the text

review taught words daily

Provide opportunities for students to use the words

I learned about heart words. The phoneme part in a word that is irregular is represented with a heart to let us know that part of the word has to be "read by heart". It is important because they want their students to understand some words are decodable.

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Syllabication:

the division of a multisyllabic word into separate syllables with each syllable containing a vowel sound

This is an important skill to have because t helps students read words

Syllable:

a word or part of a word pronounced as a unit

Six syllable types

Closed (dump)

Open(she)

Vowel combination(bread)

r-controlled (far)

Vowel-consonant e (hide)

Consonant-le (apple)

3 research-based approaches

1. using syllable types and division principles

2. identifying affixes or word parts

3. using flexible syllabication strategies.

Division Principles

VC/CV, V/CV, VC/V,VC/CCV, VCC/CV, consonant-le

I learned that there are many different syllabication rules.

I also learned that flexible syllabication is combining syllable types, division principles, and affixes to decode multisyllabic words. There are two affixes which are prefixes and suffixes.

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Five Components of Reading:

Vocabulary

fluency

phonological awareness

comprehension

phonics

Syllable:

A word or part of words pronounced as a unit

Onset: The part of the syllable that comes before the word

Rime: The vowel and everything that comes after

When it comes to The Big Picture and Structure of English, there is so much to learn and break down. The structure of English helps us build a foundation. There are lots of parts that come with building this foundation like the five components of reading. Place of articulation which is the location of a vocal tract where the airflow is produced by a constant