So I talked about fluency and comprehension, but there are a few more specific terms that you might hear about. You probably won't hear these too much in normal conversation, but they're good for identifying struggles with your reader.
Digraph: two successive letters whose phonetic value is one sound (ie: /ch/ or /th/ or /sh/)
Diphthong: monosyllabic speech sound gliding from one vowel sound to another (ie; /oy/ or /ea/); also extremely fun word to throw out there at parties :)
Morpheme: an individual unit of language (ie: "pins" has two morphemes /pin/ and /s/)
Phoneme: single distinct unit of language (ie: "cat" has three phonemes /c/ /a/ /t/)
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