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Important Terms Associated with Literacy

Terms ​

  • Sight words 

  • Semantics 

  • Syntax

  • Phongolgy

  • Pragmatics

  • Phoneme

  • Phonemic awareness

  • Morpheme 

  • Grapheme

  • Nature Vs. Nurture

  • Scaffolding

  • ZPD 

  • Fast-mapping 

  • Overextension 

  • Overgeneralization 

  • Under-extension

  • Print referencing 

  • Contextualized language

  • Decontextualized language

  • Emergent literacy 

  • Expressive language 

  • Receptive language 

  • Figurative language

  • Metalinguistic awareness 

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  • Graphophonemic awareness 

  • Phoneme isolation 

  • Phoneme identity 

  • Phoneme categorization 

  • Phoneme blending 

  • Phoneme segmentation 

  • Phoneme deletion 

  • Phoneme addition 

  • Phoneme substitution 

  • Transcription 

  • Word choice 

  • Sentence conventions 

  • Genre and text structure skills 

  • Writing process strategies 

  • Self-regulation skills

  • Curriculum - ELA 

  • Thematic Unit

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