Definitions
What is a vowel?
two letters that combine together to make an unexpected sound
What is a combination?
What is a noun?
a piece of information from a written passage
What is a detail?
What is the FLoSs rule?
a sound blocked by the lips, teeth, tongue, or throat
What is a consonant?
two adjacent letters that represent one sound
What is a digraph?
a word that shows action or a state of being
What is a verb?
a sentence that describes what the passage is all about
What is the topic sentence?
this trigraph represents the sound /ch/ after a closed vowel at the end of a one-syllable base word
What is trigraph tch?
a syllable where the letter r follows a vowel and changes the sound of the vowel
What is an r-controlled syllable?
three adjacent letters that represent one sound
What is a trigraph?
a word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
a sentence that wraps up what the passage is about
What is a conclusion?
double the consonant when you add a vowel suffix to a one syllable word with one vowel followed by one consonant
What is the doubling rule?
a line placed over a vowel in an accented syllable indicating the vowel says its name
What is a macron?
a written letter or letter cluster used to represent a single speech sound
What is a phoneme?
a word that decribes a verb, adjective, or other adverb
What is an adverb?
a word that can have different meanings
What is a multiple-meaning word?
the rule that means there are more words that double the consonant between two closed vowels than not
What is the rabbit vs. robin rule?
a curved line placed over a vowel in a closed syllable
What is a breve?
a character or symbol used to represent a speech sound or sounds
What is a letter?
a word that joins two words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
a word that has a similar meaning to another word
What is a synonym?
words that do not follow the phonetic rules for spelling
What are learned words?