Jargon Buster
Below is a list of words and phrases commonly used in education. Selecting them will reveal their definitions:
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- Guided reading is a method of teaching that involves reading with children in small groups so that their individual needs can be met.
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- The high frequency words are the words that occur most often in written texts. They include "the" and "and".
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- A phoneme is a unit of sound – examples would be the noises you make when you say 't' or 'k'.
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- Phonics are a method for teaching reading and writing by developing the ability to hear, identify and manipulate units of sound.
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- Segment means to split up a word into its individual phonemes to spell it. E.g, the word 'bat' has three phonemes: b – a – t.