Written CLD A Level terminology
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phonics |
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing the English language.
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grapheme |
A grapheme is the smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language.
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phoneme |
Phoneme is the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning.
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digraph |
A digraph is a pair of letters representing a single speech sound.
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emergent |
Emergent writing is a stage where the pre-writing skills are developed.
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writing |
One page of writing is about 1,000 bytes.
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Reading |
With emergent reading children know some letters and their sounds, and can write some letters.
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environmental |
Environmental printed materials are a part of everyday life.
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Print can be signs, symbols, letters or characters.
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early |
Early literacy is involving young children in reading and writing practice.
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literacy |
Literacy skills were poor.
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developmental |
There are many theories about the developmental stages of writing.
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blending |
Blending is sometimes called 'sounding out' by primary school teachers.
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segmenting |
Breaking a word down m-a-t back to the graphemes is called segmenting.
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