| A | B |
| at this stage the study pretend reads. | Emergent Stage |
| students in this stage are learning short vowels | letter name alphabetic stage |
| Concept of Print | What skill does the student have if they have basic knowledge of print and books |
| Alphabetic Principle | This skill is learned by teaching letter/sound relationships |
| If "zup" was a real word, what vowel sound would it have? | short |
| If "zute" was a real word what vowel sound would it have? | long |
| Which word begins with a digraph? | wrap |
| Which word is a CVVC word? | rain |
| Which word has a y used as a vowel? | baby |
| Which word has a y used as a consonant? | yellow |
| high frequency words | are the most commonly used words in printed text |
| sup, dik, kap | are nonsense words that have the CVC pattern |
| limp, song, climb | words that contain preconsonantal nasal |
| When students first learn to read, they are focused on individual words. What do they do so as they read? | They point to each word as they read them |
| e, i & Y behind the c/g makes what sound | soft /s/ |
| when t is vollowed by ion, what sound does it make | /sh/ |
| blue, train, street | These words have initial blends. |
| are the sounds that s makes | /s/ and /z/ |
| are the sounds that x makes | /ks/, /x/, /z/ |
| sugar, vacation, sheep | words that have the /sh/sounds |