Word Identification (TExES 293/STR)
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Consonant Digraph ✔✔two consonants that make a single consonant sound when together in a
word
Graphophonic Cue ✔✔Use of letter sounds and spelling patterns to deciph
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Word Identification (TExES 293/STR)
Already Passed
Consonant Digraph ✔✔two consonants that make a single consonant sound when together in a
word
Graphophonic Cue ✔✔Use of letter sounds and spelling patterns to decipher new words
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) ✔✔The state foundation curriculum developed by
the State Board of Education, that requires all students to demonstrate the knowledge and skills
necessary to read, write, compute, problem solve, think critically, apply technology, and
communicate across all subject areas
Long Vowel ✔✔When a vowel sounds like its name, this is called a long vowel sound.
Decoding ✔✔In reading out loud, being able to sound out words by breaking them into simple
forms. In reading for comprehension, the understanding of how to read each letter or letter pattern
in a word to determine the word's meaning
Morphology ✔✔The study of forms of words, including affixes, roots, stems, and parts of speech.
Synthetic Phonics Approach ✔✔an accelerated approach to phonics instruction that explicitly
teaches how to convert letters into sounds (phonemes) and then blend the sounds to form words.
Cognates ✔✔Words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
Decodable Word ✔✔words that follow common letter/sound correspondence rules and can be
"sounded out"
Sight Word ✔✔word that cannot be decoded because it doesn't follow standard phonics rules and
must be recognized by sight
Sight Word Instruction ✔✔the approach taken when teaching high frequency, often irregular
words to early readers
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle ✔✔Using the relationship between symbols (letters and
words) and sounds of a language to read and write
R-Controlled Vowel ✔✔a vowel followed by the letter r where the "r" that doesn't make its normal
short or long sound
Grapheme ✔✔A symbol, letter, or the combination of letters that represents a single sound.
Letter-Sound Correspondence ✔✔knowing what sound(s) each letter makes
Analogy-Based Phonics Approach ✔✔an approach to phonics instruction in which students use
knowledge of word patterns to decode new words
Pragmatic Cue ✔✔Use of a text's function or purpose to create meaning
Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines ✔✔detailed descriptions of expected behaviors across multiple
skill domains that should be observed in children from the beginning to the end of prekindergarten
Contextual Analysis ✔✔use of surrounding information in a text to help determine a word
Diphthong ✔✔one vowel sound made by the combination of two vowel sounds
High-Frequency Word ✔✔a word that appears often in grade-level text
Embedded Phonics Approach ✔✔an approach to phonics instruction that involves implicitly
teaching through reading or in context
Spelling-Based Phonics Approach ✔✔an approach to phonics instruction that involves spelling
rules and phonemes
Word Families ✔✔a group of words with a shared ending letter group/sound
Word Analysis ✔✔breaking down words into morphemes, or the smallest units of meaning
Whole Word Reading ✔✔reading a word by sight, without attempting to decode it
Phoneme ✔✔the smallest individual sounds in a word
Root ✔✔Base words to which prefixes, suffixes, and syllables can be added
Vowel Digraph ✔✔two vowels that make a single vowel sound when together in a word, also
known as "vowel teams"
Inflectional Affix ✔✔an affix that changes the form of the root or base word
Syntactic Cue ✔✔Use of a sentence or paragraph's grammar to comprehend a text
Structural / Morphemic Analysis ✔✔breaking up a word and using the recognizable pieces to help
in decoding
Semantic Cue ✔✔Use of word, symbol, or speech meanings to comprehend a text
Affix ✔✔A letter or letters that change a root word's meaning
Short Vowel ✔✔the sound that most often corresponds to a vowel when the vowel occurs
individually between consonants
Phonemic Awareness / Sound Awareness ✔✔the ability to hear, identify, and re-create individual
sounds in spoken words
Consonant Blend ✔✔two or more consonants that blend together when decoded, but each retains
its own sound
Morpheme ✔✔A combination of sounds that has meaning in speech or writing and cannot be
divided into smaller grammatical parts. This includes prefixes and suffixes.
Language Transfer ✔✔process that occurs when students who are learning a new language transfer
knowledge from L1 to L2
Automaticity ✔✔the ability to read words effortlessly
Phoneme Blending ✔✔the ability to blend two sounds to make a word
Encode ✔✔using individual sounds to spell a word
Analytic Phonics Approach ✔✔a common approach to phonics instruction in which students are
taught to recognize whole words by sight and then to break down words into smaller units of sound
Dolch Word List ✔✔the 220 most frequently used words that are considered basic level to the
reading of a first or second grader in English
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