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  2. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    For example, a type of phonogram (known in linguistics as a rime) is composed of the vowel and the consonant sounds that follow it (e.g. in the words cat, mat and sat, the rime is "at".) Teachers using the analogy method may have students memorize a bank of phonograms, such as -at or -am, or use word families (e.g. can, ran, man, or may, play ...

  3. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  4. Whole language - Wikipedia

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    Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited [8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children. The method became a major model for education in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, [7] despite there being no scientific support for the method's effectiveness. [9]

  5. Graphophone - Wikipedia

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    In 1885, when the Volta Laboratory Associates were sure that they had a number of practical inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors. The Volta Graphophone Company of Alexandria, Virginia, was created on January 6, 1886, and incorporated on February 3, 1886.

  6. Cued speech - Wikipedia

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    Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.

  7. Sensory cue - Wikipedia

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    Environmental cues are all of the sensory cues that exist in the environment. With directed attention , an environmental cue becomes an attended cue. [ 18 ] However, most environmental cues are assimilated subconsciously, as in visual contextual cueing .

  8. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    An example of lexical prosody would be "CONvert" versus "conVERT". Phrasal prosody: aprosodia affecting certain stressed words. Deficits in the left hemisphere affect this linguistic rule. An example of phrasal prosody would be a "Hot DOG", a dog that’s hot, versus a "HOT dog", a frankfurter.

  9. Cue note - Wikipedia

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    This example from the 2nd horn part Overture to Der Freischütz contains cue notes showing the 4th and 3rd horn parts, in order to aid proper entrance. Play ⓘ Cue in orchestral music In musical notation , a cue note is or cue notes are indications informing players , "of important passages being played by other instruments, such as an ...