Sight Words
Definition: Sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that don’t follow the rules of spelling or the six syllable types. These words have to be memorized because decoding them is really difficult. Students are taught to memorize sight words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills. https://www.weareteachers.com/what-are-sight-words/
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Importance: Sight words are important to children and their learning of phonics because these types of words do not follow a pattern or any rules. Children will get these words confused with other words that do follow rules and not understand why all words do not follow every rule.
Schwa
Definition: We'd all be tongue-tied without it — the most common vowel sound in English, represented by an upside-down e and ready to spring into action in almost any unstressed syllable. The second syllable of sofa is one example of an English schwa. The word schwa is from the Hebrew word shewa, which denotes a diacritical mark meaning "no vowel," and literally means "emptiness." https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/schwa
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Importance: The reason schwa is so important to the English language is because it represents not necessarily a rule or an exception to a letter, but something we cannot explain why it says what it says.
Digraph
Definition: two letters that make one sound:
Common vowel digraphs- in English include ai (as in rain), ay (day), ea (teach), ea (bread), ea (break), ee (free), ei (eight), ey (key), ie (piece), oa (road), oo (book), oo (room), ow (slow), and ue (true).
Common consonant digraphs- in English include ch (as in church), ch (school), ng(king), ph (phone), sh (shoe), th (then), th (think), and wh (wheel). https://www.thoughtco.com/digraph-sounds-and-letters-169045
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Importance: Digraphs are important to a childs education because are a very common tool, or sets of letters that we use very commonly in our everyday language. Children must learn that when putting certain letters together, they can create a whole new sound all together, just as if it was a new letter.
Blend
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Importance: Blends must be taught and learned in a child's academic career, first of all to succeed, but second of all because they are different than digraphs. Although they look very much alike and are confused a lot of the times, blends are when two letters are put beside one another BUT you can still hear the sound of each letter.
Phonograms
Definition: Phonograms are the letter symbols that comprise a sound. Phonograms may be made up of one letter or letter teams. For example, the /b/ in the word 'boy' is made up of a single letter 'b.' However, the /ch/ in the word 'chip' is comprised of a letter team 'ch' that come together to make a single sound. https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-phonogram-definition-examples.html
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Importance: I believe that this term becomes more important as you get older and possibly have to explain and teach what a phonogram is, but as children it is important to know and understand that when you hear a sound, there is a letter that correlates with it. This symbol, the one that the sound correlates with, is a phonogram. Children will have to identify these symbols when maybe reading directions or completing an activity.
Onset
Definition: The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat). Not all words have onsets. http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/onset_rime
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Importance: The reason children must learn the concept of onsets is so they can benefit from understanding that an onset can be replaced with a different letter to create a whole new word using the same rime they were once just using. This allows for expansion of vocabulary and recognition of new words forming from a different word originally.
Rime
Definition: the term "rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g. at in cat). Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/onset_rime
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Importance: Rime is important to know and understand when teaching children because it is very similar with word families and they must know the difference. Rime also allows for students to recognize similarities within words that they can connect with. Having a repeated section of a word gives students the ability to create new words using the same rime or possibly look for words with the same rime in it.
Definition: Sight words are words, like come, does, or who, that don’t follow the rules of spelling or the six syllable types. These words have to be memorized because decoding them is really difficult. Students are taught to memorize sight words as a whole, by sight, so that they can recognize them immediately (within three seconds) and read them without having to use decoding skills. https://www.weareteachers.com/what-are-sight-words/
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Importance: Sight words are important to children and their learning of phonics because these types of words do not follow a pattern or any rules. Children will get these words confused with other words that do follow rules and not understand why all words do not follow every rule.
Schwa
Definition: We'd all be tongue-tied without it — the most common vowel sound in English, represented by an upside-down e and ready to spring into action in almost any unstressed syllable. The second syllable of sofa is one example of an English schwa. The word schwa is from the Hebrew word shewa, which denotes a diacritical mark meaning "no vowel," and literally means "emptiness." https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/schwa
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Importance: The reason schwa is so important to the English language is because it represents not necessarily a rule or an exception to a letter, but something we cannot explain why it says what it says.
Digraph
Definition: two letters that make one sound:
Common vowel digraphs- in English include ai (as in rain), ay (day), ea (teach), ea (bread), ea (break), ee (free), ei (eight), ey (key), ie (piece), oa (road), oo (book), oo (room), ow (slow), and ue (true).
Common consonant digraphs- in English include ch (as in church), ch (school), ng(king), ph (phone), sh (shoe), th (then), th (think), and wh (wheel). https://www.thoughtco.com/digraph-sounds-and-letters-169045
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Importance: Digraphs are important to a childs education because are a very common tool, or sets of letters that we use very commonly in our everyday language. Children must learn that when putting certain letters together, they can create a whole new sound all together, just as if it was a new letter.
Blend
Definition: A consonant blend is when two or more consonants are blended together, but each sound may be heard in the blend. The most common beginning consonant blends include: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fr, tr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sl, sm, sp and st. Blends can also occur at the end of words as in the word “last”. There are also blends which contain three consonants. http://blog.maketaketeach.com/teaching-blends-and-digraphs/
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Importance: Blends must be taught and learned in a child's academic career, first of all to succeed, but second of all because they are different than digraphs. Although they look very much alike and are confused a lot of the times, blends are when two letters are put beside one another BUT you can still hear the sound of each letter.
Phonograms
Definition: Phonograms are the letter symbols that comprise a sound. Phonograms may be made up of one letter or letter teams. For example, the /b/ in the word 'boy' is made up of a single letter 'b.' However, the /ch/ in the word 'chip' is comprised of a letter team 'ch' that come together to make a single sound. https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-phonogram-definition-examples.html
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Importance: I believe that this term becomes more important as you get older and possibly have to explain and teach what a phonogram is, but as children it is important to know and understand that when you hear a sound, there is a letter that correlates with it. This symbol, the one that the sound correlates with, is a phonogram. Children will have to identify these symbols when maybe reading directions or completing an activity.
Onset
Definition: The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat). Not all words have onsets. http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/onset_rime
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Importance: The reason children must learn the concept of onsets is so they can benefit from understanding that an onset can be replaced with a different letter to create a whole new word using the same rime they were once just using. This allows for expansion of vocabulary and recognition of new words forming from a different word originally.
Rime
Definition: the term "rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g. at in cat). Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/onset_rime
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Importance: Rime is important to know and understand when teaching children because it is very similar with word families and they must know the difference. Rime also allows for students to recognize similarities within words that they can connect with. Having a repeated section of a word gives students the ability to create new words using the same rime or possibly look for words with the same rime in it.
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