Phonemic Awareness: awareness of speech sounds of consonants and vowels, and the ability to manipulate sounds
Phonics: the study of the relationship between letters (phonemes) and sounds (graphemes)
Vocabulary: a body of word used in a language
tier 1, tier 2, tier 3
Fluency: the rate, accuracy, and prosody in which we read
Comprehension: the ability to decode written language and understand language comprehension to process the text and understand the meaning