Sounds
The letters in the alphabet which are not vowels. Most of the letters in the alphabet are of this type.
What are consonants?
A word without a prefix or a suffix.
What is a base word?
A word or part of a word with one talking vowel.
What is a syllable?
The f, l, s, or z is usually doubled?
What happens to an f, l, s, or z that immediately follows a short vowel sound, and the f, l, s, or z is the last letter in a single syllable word?
Two or more consonants that come together to make one sound.
What is a consonant digraph, such as sh or wh?
letters or groups of letters which say /er/.
What are er as in her, ur as in turn, and ir as in bird?
A letter or a group of letters that have meaning and is added to the end of a base word to change the meaning of the base word.
What is a suffix?
A syllable which has a vowel followed by one or more consonants, and the first consonant is not a r. This type of syllable usually has a short vowel sound.
What is a closed syllable?
The three vowel sounds the letter y can make.
What are long i, long e, and short i?
Two or more consonants blended together. Each consonant sound is heard.
What is a consonant blend?
The sound or sounds made by "ou"?
What is /ou/ as in out or /oo/ as in soup?
A group of letters, which have meaning in themselves, and need to have a prefix and/or a suffix to be a word.
What is a root?
A syllable which has a vowel followed by a consonant and a silent e. This type of syllable usually has a long vowel sound.
What is a vce syllable?
When must a consonant be doubled before adding a vowel suffix?
Divide 'gragmoogle' into syllables and say the nonsense word.
What is grag-moo-gle?
What are the following letters called:
a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
What are vowels?
A letter or a group of letters that have meaning and is added to the beginning of a base word to change the base word's meaning
What is a prefix?
A syllable that has a vowel as the last letter of the syllable. This syllable usually makes a long vowel sound.
What is an open syllable and what is its vowel sound?
The suffix to be added begins with a vowel and the base word ends with an e.
When must the silent e be dropped before adding a suffix?
Show how you would divide the nonsense word dacsinate into syllables, then say the word.
What is a dacsinate (dac-si-nate)?
The individual sounds in the word "literacy"? Hint: tap it out and count how many sounds: l-i-...
What is 7 (l-i-t-er-a-c-y)?
The two possible meanings for the suffix er.
What are 'more than' and 'the person or thing that does the base word'?
Two vowels that work together to make one or more vowel sounds.
What is a vowel team?
When a consonant comes before y, CHANGE the y to i before adding a suffix.
When should an ending y be changed to an i before adding a suffix?
Show how you would divide the nonsense word 'uzzle' into syllables, then say the word.
What is uz-zle?