Alphabet
The number of letters in the English alphabet
What is 26?
If you do this 6 minutes a day, it reduces your stress by up to 68%
What is read?
This is the most common vowel letter in the English language.
What is the letter "e"?
The number of vowel letters in the word cap.
What is 1?
Individual sounds in spoken words.
What are phonemes?
The number of vowel letters in our alphabet
What is 5 or 6?
If you read this many minutes a day, you'll read 1,800,000 words per year.
What is 20 minutes?
This is the most common vowel sound in the English language.
What is "uh"? (sounds like a short "u", but weaker)
What is the short "a" sound?
The vowel pronunciation that is the sound of the letter, rather than the name of the vowel in the alphabet.
What is a short vowel sound?
The name of each vowel letter in our alphabet
What is a, e, i, o, u, & sometimes y
Children learn up to this many words per year by reading.
What is 12,000?
The only speech sound with its own name.
What is "schwa"?
The letter you can add to the end of the word cap to make the letter a say its name.
What is the letter "e"?
The type of vowel sound where the letter says its name.
What is a long vowel sound?
5 letters that are consonants in our alphabet
Answers vary
Kids without this in their classroom read 50% less than children their same age.
What is a classroom library?
This happens roughly every two hours.
What is a new word that is added to the English dictionary?
The syllable type that contains only one vowel and is followed by one or more consonants.
What is a closed syllable?
The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds.
What is phonemic awareness?
The first 5 consonant letters in our alphabet
What are b, c, d, f, & g
If you read one book a day to a child from their birth, they will have been read this many books by their 5th birthday.
What is 1,825 books?
The approximate number of English speakers in the world.
What is 1.5 billion people?
The type of vowel sound a closed syllable usually makes.
What is a short vowel sound?
Matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters.
What are phonics?