VOWELS
What are the 5 vowels?
A, E, I, O, U
What are the consonants?
all letters of the alphabet beside the vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
What is a phoneme? How is it different than a letter? Do they always match?
The smallest piece of sound in a word
What is a syllable?
a word part
Fingerstretch 'MAP.' How many phonemes? How many graphemes? What is the vowel? How many syllables? Why?
phonemes: 3
graphemes: 3
vowel: a
syllables: 1
Which letter is sometimes a vowel and sometimes a consonant?
Y
What sound does an 'X' make at the beginning? What about at the end?
beginning: /z/ xylophone
end: /ks/ box
What is finger-stretching? What does it help us do?
Ability to sound out words by their phonemes and count the number of phonemes in a word.
What are three ways to figure out the number of syllables?
1. puffs of breath we feel as we say a word
2. claps we make as we say a word
3. # of times our chin goes down as we say a word
Fingerstretch 'CHICK.' How many phonemes? How many graphemes? What is the vowel? How many syllables? Why?
phonemes: 3
graphemes: 3
vowel: i
syllables:1
two digraphs
What do short vowels say?
their sound
Which letter is afraid to go by itself? Who does it go with? What sound does it make?
/Q/
goes with: /u/
sound: /kw/ queen
What is a grapheme? How is it related to phonemes?
letter/letter combinations that spell one sound.
it is related to phonemes because they spell out the sound
What is a closed syllable?
have 1 vowel letter followed by 1 or more consonants.
ex: wish, cup
Finger-stretch 'BAIT.' How many phonemes? How many graphemes? What is the vowel? How many syllables? Why?
phonemes: 3
graphemes: 3
vowel: i
syllables: 1
What do long vowels say? What are the gestures?
their letter
What is a digraph? How many sounds does it make? What are our digraphs and gestures?
two letters that make one sound!
di=two graph=letters
ch-chip, ck-duck, ph-phone, sh-shut, th-thick, wh-when
Phonemes are what you _____________.
Graphemes are what you ____________.
phonemes are what you hear
graphemes are what you see
What is a not-closed syllable?
Contains a vowel at the end of the word!
Finger-stretch 'PINE.' How many phonemes? How many graphemes? What is the vowel? How many syllables? Why?
phonemes: 3
graphemes: 3
vowel: i
syllables:1
What are the guide words and gestures for short vowels?
/a/
/e/
/i/
/o/
/u/
What is a trigraph? How many sounds does it make? What are they?
3 letter that make 1 sound
tri=three graph=letters
tch-watch, dge-badge
What is a nonsense word?
a word that can be read and spelled but has NO meaning
In a closed syllable the vowel word is ___________.
In a not closed syllable the vowel is ___________.
short
long
Finger-stretch 'SHAME.' How many phonemes? How many graphemes? What is the vowel? How many syllables? Why?
phonemes: 3
graphemes: 3
vowel: a
syllables: 1