Vocabulary Padlet by Brysha Schmidt

Shared Reading

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Teachers read a book aloud, modeling fluent reading over the course of a several days, students are also actively involved in this process

Interactive Read Aloud

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Engaging students in the reading process, before, during and after reading.

Grand Conversations

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Discussion about stories in which students explore the big idea, deepen their comprehension skills and reflect on their feeling.

Choral Reading

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Groups of students or the whole class read aloud a brief text together, this increases reading fluency and learning to read with expression.

Story Retelling

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Teachers sit one-on-one with a student and ask them to retell a story they just read aloud or listened to and organize this information they remember in a summary to help the teacher understand where their level of comprehension is.

Story Boards

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A visual representation of a sequence of important events from a book or video watched in class. This should have pictures and text of the important event.

Interactive Writing

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Where the teacher and the students collaborate to create a written text

Language Experience

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Integrates personal experiences and oral language into reading in writing by having the students share their ideas/experiences and the teacher then transcribes it.

Word Wall

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High-frequency or thematic words are displayed on a wall to support literacy development. These words serve as a reference for students during reading, writing, and vocabulary learning.

Word Sorts

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An activity where students categorize words based on patterns, meanings, or sounds. They can be open or closed, which helps develop phonics, vocabulary and critical thinking skills.

Semantic Feature Analysis

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A type of graphic organizer that uses a grid to compare and contrast characteristics of words, concepts, or ideas. It helps students understand relationships between vocabulary terms.

KWL Charts

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A three-column graphic organizer that guides students through learning:

K: What they already Know about a topic.
W: What they Want to learn.
L: What they have Learned after instruction or exploration.

Hot Seat

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A type of interactive role play activity where the teacher and the student take on a role of the character and answering questions as the character would.

Book Talks

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Short, engaging presentations by students or teachers to promote a book. It often highlighting the themes, characters, and plot, with little detail in order to not spoil the whole story.

Book Orientation

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Students learn how to hold a book and turn pages, they understand the message is coming from the text not the pictures.

Letter and Word Concepts

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Aquire the concept of what a letter, what a word is and what a sentence is. With this understanding, students can identify words, letters and sentences on a page. They also become aware of capital and lowercase letters, as well as punctuation.

Environmental Print

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Recognizing visuals in their environments such as certain logos. They eventually begin to develop linking form and meaning as they gain more reading and writing experience.

Morning Message

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Write a brief and friendly letter/message to the students each day. They read the message out loud and can point out vocabulary they know, count letters, and answer the questions if any are asked.

Concepts of Print

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Understanding the rules and understanding of written language such as letters, words and punctuation.

Directionality

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Students ability to navigate and understand spatial awareness such as up and down, left to right.

Graphophonemic Relationship

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The connection between letters (graphemes) and the sounds (phonemes) they represent. This knowledge helps children decode words while reading and encode words when writing.

Phonological Awareness

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A broad skill that includes recognizing and manipulating spoken parts of words and sentences, such as syllables, rhymes, and onsets and rimes. It is essential for early reading development.

Phonemic Awareness

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A specific aspect of phonological awareness that focuses on identifying and manipulating individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. For example, recognizing that "cat" is made up of the sounds /c/, /a/, and /t/.

Phonemes

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The smallest units of sound in spoken language that distinguish one word from another. For example, the word "bat" has three phonemes: /b/, /a/, /t/.

Onset & Rime

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Onset is the initial consonant sound(s) of a syllable, while rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and any following consonants. For example, in the word "cat," /c/ is the onset, and /at/ is the rime.

Sound Matching

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The ability to recognize and identify similar sounds in words. For example, determining which word starts with the same sound as "bat" from a set of words like "ball," "cat," and "dog."

Sound Isolation

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The ability to identify individual sounds in a word. For example, recognizing that the first sound in "dog" is /d/.

Sound Blending

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The skill of combining individual phonemes to form a word. For example, hearing the sounds /s/, /u/, and /n/ separately and blending them to say "sun."

Sound Segmenting

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The ability to break a word into its individual sounds. For example, breaking the word "cat" into /c/, /a/, and /t/.https://aplusclassroomcreations.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/how-to-teach-phoneme-segmentation-Short-pin-1.png

Sound addition/substitution

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The ability to manipulate sounds in words by adding, deleting, or changing phonemes to form new words. For example, changing the /c/ in "cat" to /h/ to make "hat" or adding an /s/ to "top" to create "stop."

Alphabetic Principle

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The understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language. It is the foundation for decoding words and learning to read.

Phonics

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Phonics is a method of teaching reading and spelling that focuses on the relationship between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes). It helps children decode words by recognizing letter-sound patterns.

Phonology

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Phonology is the study of the sound system of a language, including how sounds function and interact within words. It involves phonemes (individual sounds), stress patterns, intonation, and syllables.

Orthography

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Orthography refers to the conventional spelling system of a language, including spelling rules, letter patterns, and writing conventions.

Etymology

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Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words, including how they have evolved in meaning, spelling, and pronunciation over time.

Graphemes

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A grapheme is the written representation of a phoneme (sound). It can be a single letter (e.g., "b" in "bat") or a combination of letters (e.g., "sh" in "ship").

Consonants

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Consonants are speech sounds produced when airflow is partially or completely blocked by the lips, teeth, tongue, or vocal cords (e.g., b, d, m, s, t).

Consonant Blends

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A consonant blend is a group of two or more consonants in which each sound is heard individually (e.g., "bl" in "blue," "str" in "street").

Consonant Digraphs

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A consonant digraph is a pair of consonants that work together to make a single sound (e.g., "sh" in "ship," "ch" in "chat," "th" in "think").

Vowels

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Vowels are speech sounds produced without any obstruction of airflow. The five main vowels in English are A, E, I, O, and U (sometimes Y).

Vowel Digraphs

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A vowel digraph is a pair of vowels that work together to make one sound (e.g., "ea" in "beach," "oa" in "boat," "ai" in "rain").

Diphthongs

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A diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins as one vowel and glides into another within the same syllable (e.g., "oi" in "boil," "ou" in "house").

Word Families

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Word families are groups of words that share a common spelling pattern and similar sounds. They often have the same rime (ending part of a word), such as:

"-at" family: cat, hat, mat, sat
"-og" family: dog, log, fog, jog