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Module 11 (Week 4) Vocabulary 1.) Affixes - "most commonly a suffix or prefix attached to a base word, stem, or root" ( Words Their Ways ) Teaching afixes within literacy teaching is important because helps determine unknown words meanings. 2.) Academic Vocabulary - "domain-specific vocabulary found in content areas, specialized, disciplinary texts as well as general vocabulary used across content areas" ( Words Their Ways )   Academic Vocabulary are very important because this helps students learn important content specific terms that will help them analysis the given terms/ 3.) Inflectional Endings - "suffixes that change the verb tense or number of a word" ( Words Their Ways )   Inflectional endinggs are important when it coems to literacy learning because they help identify differnt verb forms of a given word. 4.) Syllable Juncture - "the transition from one syllable to the next" ( Words Their Ways )

Module 10 (Week 4) Vocabulary 1.) Word Consciousness - "an attitude of curiosity and attention to words critical for vocabulary development" ( Words Their Ways ) Word Consciousness is important when it comes to teaching literacy because this allows students the time to fully develop and greater understanding of words ad their meanings. 2.) Diphthongs - "a complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another within the same syllables" ( Words Their Ways ) Diphthongs are important to learn when learning literacy because they can be sometimes tricky for students to understand. When certain vowels are put together, they can cause a change in sound. 3.) Ambiguous Vowels - "a vowel sound represented by a variety of different spelling patterns, or vowel patterns that represent a wide range of sounds" ( Words Their Ways ) Ambiguous Vowels are typically taught to students within  the word pattern stage and c

Module 9 (Week 3) Vocabulary 1.) Sight Words - "printed words stored in memory by the reader that can be read immediately without having to use decoding strategies" ( Words Their Way ) Sight words are important to literacy because these are the words that are most frequently used in text and often do not follow any English rules. Knowing sight words has an impact on vocabulary, comprehension and decoding skills. 2.) Schwa -"a vowel sound in English that often occurs in an unstressed syllable"( Words Their Way ) Having an understanding of schwa helps learners understand decoding skills because some sounds in the english language are stressed and unstressed. 3.) Digraph -"two letters that represent one sound"( Words Their Way ) Digraphs are an important aspect of phonics because they are used to form a different sound which causes some students to struggle. 4.) Blend -"an orthographic unit of two or three letters at

Module 8 (Week 3) Vocabulary 1.) Pretend Reading - "a paragraph or spontaneous retelling told by students as they turn the pages of a familiar story book" ( Words Their Way ) Pretend reading helps with literacy learning by teaching students to explore a books content with the student exploring the text. 2.) Memory Reading -"an accurate recitation of text accomplished by fingerpoint reading"( Words Their Way ) Memory Reading helps teach students beginning reading strategies including pointing to words and reading the book from left to right. 3.) Language Experience Approach -" an approach to teaching reading, in which students dictate to a teacher, who records their language"( Words Their Way ) The language experience approach helps students explore literacy by having the student state orally what they had tried to spell on the paper. 4.) Dialogic Reading -"an approach to reading aloud that is designed to stimulat

Module 7 (Week 3) Vocabulary 1.) Spelling Inventory - "assessments that ask students to spell a series of increasingly difficult words used to determine what features students know or use but confuse, as well as a specific developmental stage of spelling" ( Words Their Way ) Spelling Inventories are important to teaching phonics because it offers adequate feedback on how the student uses phonemic awareness skills when they are asked to spell different words. 2.) Static Reversal -"a handwriting error that is the mirror image of the intended letter"( Words Their Way ) Static reversal can effect many beginner spellers because so letters look similar but are typically reversed. The teacher should offer resources including how to properly write each letter. 3.) Kinetic Reversal -" an error of letter order"( Words Their Way ) When it comes to kinetic reversal, they can have an impact when students are learning literacy. Students can

Module 6 (Week 2) Vocabulary 1.) Invented Spelling - "allows students to write even before they can read during the emergent stage" ( Words Their Way) Invented spelling offers creativity within the literacy classroom by allowing students to attempt to communicate with the letters and sounds that they are already familiar with. This also allows teachers to identify struggling students who are not familiar with letter-sound recognition. 2.) Word Walls -"a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom"(readingrockets.com) Word walls within the literacy classroom are essential because this teaches students new vocabulary and offers them a wide variety of new words that they are able to see daily around the classroom. They promote vocabulary growth and improvements in literacy. 3.) Word Sorts -" A basic word study routine in which students group words i