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.