Listed below are important pre-literacy鈥痶erms that are used on this website and in education circles. This glossary may come in handy as you work with your child to develop and enhance his or her pre-reading skills. An understanding of these terms may also help facilitate dialogue with your child鈥檚 pediatrician, therapy providers and early childhood educators. As your child ages toward more formal academic instruction in kindergarten, you will begin to hear these terms more often.
础濒濒颈迟别谤补迟颈辞苍:鈥�The repetition of beginning sound in neighboring words (examples: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" or "Willard Wooten walked along the wooden pathway")聽
Cognitive skills:鈥�Skills that enhance the ability to think and reason聽
Compound word鈥痓lending:鈥疨utting words together to make a new word (example: "dog" and "house" make "doghouse")聽
Elision:鈥疧mitting a sound or sounds from a word and then saying what is left (example: "pineapple" without "pine" is "apple")聽
Environmental print:鈥疪ecognizable print found in everyday life (examples: stop signs, grocery store signs and other business signs, cereal boxes)聽
尝颈迟别谤补肠测:鈥�The ability to read and write聽
Motor skills:鈥�The coordination of muscle and nerve activity to produce movement聽
翱苍蝉别迟鈥痑苍诲鈥痳颈尘别:鈥�Onset鈥痠s the initial sound in a word;鈥痳ime鈥痠s the remaining part of the word (example: "moon" 鈥斺€痮nset鈥痠s /m/,鈥痳ime鈥痠s /oon/)聽
Phonemic awareness:鈥�The ability to detect and manipulate speech sounds in words (example: "cat" has three phonemes /c//a//t/)聽
Print awareness:鈥�The earliest understanding that written language carries meaning聽
Rhyme:鈥疘dentical sounds occurring in two or more words, from the last vowel to the end of the word (examples: cat/hat, bee/tree)聽
Syllables:鈥疷nits of sound that make up a word (example: "di-no-saur")聽
厂测濒濒补产濒别鈥痓濒别苍诲颈苍驳:鈥�Putting syllables together to make a word聽