Chapter 1
Person, place or thing
What is a noun?
The smallest single unit of sound.
What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of meaning in a word/language.
What is a morpheme?
The written or printed representation of a phoneme.
What is a grapheme?
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y and W.
What are vowels?
What is the initial consonant sound found at the beginning of words or syllables?
What is an onset?
The limited set of the most common endings to syllables and words.
What is the rime?
The term used to label the conscious awareness about the sounds of words in language. Acquired before phonemic awareness.
What is phonological awareness?
The term used to label the ability to segment or blend sounds in a word.
What is phonemic awareness?
The ability to decode or encode (read and write).
What is phonics?
What is the alphabetic principle?
The vowel combinations: oi, oy, ow, oo, ai
What are dipthongs?
A term that is similar and may be used as a definition.
What is a synonym?
Two different letters that when put together make one sound.
What are digraphs?
The term used to refer to the writing system of a language.
What is orthography?
The symbol used to represent a long vowel sound.
What is a macron?
Two or three consonants that appear together.
What are consonant clusters?
The orthographic symbol used to represent a short vowel sound.
What is a breve?
The term used to determine the word's meaning based on the context of the sentence.
What are semantic cues?
The term when a student uses clues from the sentence structure to determine an unknown word.
What are syntactic clues?
When a reader uses prefixes, root words and suffixes to determine pronunciation and meaning.
What is structural analysis?
The initial phoneme heard in a word such as "that" in which the vocal cords vibrate during the production of the phoneme.
What is voiced "th"?
The initial phoneme heard in the key word "thumb" in which the vocal cords do not vibrate during the production of the phoneme.
What is an unvoiced "th"?
A vowel that appears in a word but is not pronounced.
What is a silent vowel?
The term for analyzing written words and constructing both their sounds and meanings.
What is word analysis?