PA Skills
Phonics Vocabulary
Reading Riddles
Syllable Types
Study of......
100

The ability to hear whether words end with the same sound

What is rhyming?

100

A speech sound articulated with vibrating vocal cards.

What is a voiced sound?

100

I have 3 different sounds, spelled by two letters, I’m added at the end of a word

What is suffix -ed?

100

This syllable has an r after the vowel; the vowel makes an unexpected sound

What is the r-controlled syllable?

100

The writing system of a language

What is orthography?

200

The understanding that sentences are composed of separate words

What is sentence segmentation?

200

The six orthographic patterns in English used to build words

What are the 6 Syllable types?

200

I’m sometimes added to the end of word when someone speaks, but if you are teaching sounds, make sure you clip me.  

Hint: I'm usually found only in the unaccented syllable.

What is the schwa sound?

200

This syllable ends in at least one consonant; the vowel is short

What is a closed syllable? (VC)

200

The rule system within a language by which phonemes are sequenced and uttered to make words

What is phonology?

300

A word chunk organized around a vowel sound

What is a syllable?

300

Ability to translate a word from print to speech

What is decoding?

300

I’m not a vowel, but sometimes I pretend, but only when I come at the end.

What is the letter y or w?

300

This syllable ends in one vowel; the vowel is long

What is an open syllable? (CV)

300

The study of the smallest meaningful parts of a word

What is morphology?

400

The ability to manipulate, blend, and segment sounds

What is phonemic awareness?

400

A vowel sound that has a glide where your mouth begins in one place and ends in another

What is a diphthong?

400

I sneak up to the end of words, and change the sound of the vowel

What is silent -e?

400

This syllable has a final consonant combination that is reliable, but nonphonetic

What is a final stable syllable?

400

The knowledge of words and word meanings both orally and in print

What is vocabulary?

500

These skills are a prerequisite for students to to develop in order to become successful readers

What is phonological awareness?

500

A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; may be one, two, three or four letters

What is a grapheme?

500

I have a twin, but only one of us can be felt.

What are voiced and unvoiced sounds?

500

This syllable has two adjacent vowels that make a single sound

What is a vowel pair or vowel digraph?

500

Knowledge of letters and letter combinations and the sounds they represent

What is graphophonemic knowledge?

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