Week 5

• Invented spelling - This is letting the student practice spelling the word. They will sound out the word and spell it how it sounds and using prior knowledge of other words. For example, In a students work they wrote "Houm" instead of "home".
This is important because it can be corrected and it is a stage students go through and they are starting to write words by how they sound.

• Word walls- This is posted in the classroom of words the students have learned so when they are writing they can use those words or if they need to know the spelling of them.
This is important for students so that they can become familiar with words they will come across while reading.

• Word sorts- this is when the students will create categories based on the word. We did this in class seperating words that related to a boat, bird and weather.
This is important because students need to find relationships between words.

• Morphemes - A meaningful unit of language that cannot be further divided. An example of this would be (one morpheme): boy, desire, lady, water.(Two morphemes): desirable 
This is important for students to see because these words cant be broken down.

• Phonemes- a sound or group of different sounds. an example of a phoneme is /K/ cat, kit, scat, skit.
This is important because students realize some letter make the same sounds as others, such as the C in cat.

• Synthetic phonics- way of teaching reading. saying the sounds of the letters. 
This is important because students need to realize the sounds that letters make.

• Analytic phonics- Children identify common phonemes in a set of words. way of teaching reading with phonemes.
This is important because children can identify the common phonemes.

• Interactive writing- This is when the students' and the teacher share the pen and create ideas together in an in group discussion.
• This is important so that the teach can model good writing for the students.
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• High frequency words- similar to sight words, these are words students' will see often in a text and should know.
• This is important so that when students come across these words they can recognize them.
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• • Orthography- this word means spelling.
•  It is important for students' to know how to spell that way they are able to write and construct stories on their own.
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• Word solving- finding what new words mean.
 using context clues and similar words that students understand they will use this to find out how to say a word they are unfamiliar with.

week 3

• Alphabetic principle- symbols used to represent the sound of a word. for example use a picture of a doll for the letter 'D'.
This is important because students can learn what each word starts with and they associate the letter with the picture.

• Concepts of print- understand what is being read. The student can write what is being said and read what is written.
This is important for students to understand books and that each book had a title, author.. etc

• Letter recognition- students can identify letters. They also know when they see and 'K' that King starts with a 'K'
It is important for students to associate words with letters.


• Phonemic awareness- students are able to hear and identify phonemes. Students can find words that rhyme.
This is important to hear the phonemes so students can manipulate words.

• Blending- can sound out each letter of the word. 
It is important for student to be able to blend letter sounds together to make a word.

• Segmenting- splitting the words into parts.
This is important so that students can break apart words and their sounds.