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Phonemic awareness {Ans: The conscious awareness that words are made up of segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography; also called phoneme awareness. \nA student who possesses phonemic awareness can segment sounds in words and blend strings of isolated sounds together to form recognizable words. Example: separate out the sounds in "bat"}KWL {Ans: A strategy developed by Donna Ogle that is especially useful for identifying purposes for reading expository text. The strategy, which typically involves the use of a graphic organizer, prompts the reader to consider What I Know (K), What I Want To Learn (W), and What I Have Learned (L).}Multisyllabic {Ans: Having more than one syllable}Phoneme {Ans: A speech sound that combines with others in a language system to make words}Structural analysis {Ans: The identification of word-meaning elements, as re and read in reread, to help understand the meaning of a word as a whole; morphemic analysis.}Predicting {Ans: Guessing what will happen next in the text based on what has already been read}