Structures
This speech sound has nothing blocking the air
(lips, tongue, teeth)
What is a vowel?
Sounds go together to make this structure which is pushed out as one breath of air
What is a syllable?
A vowel followed by one or more consonants
The oldest example of writing was found on the shell of this animal
What is a tortoise?
Three ways to spell the phoneme /k/
c, k, ck
This speech sound has something (lips, tongue or teeth) obstructing or blocking the air
What is a consonant?
The spelling of /k/ at the end of a two syllable word
What is c?
In a closed syllable, the vowel spells this sound and is marked with a breve
What is a short sound?
A picture that represents an entire word. This type of writing is the oldest form of writing.
What is a logogram?
What is /wh/?
Two consonants stuck together to spell one sound
What is a digraph?
The spelling of /k/ after a short vowel in a single syllable word
What is ck?
The name of the syllable type when a vowel is followed by one or more consonants, but the vowel spells a long sound
What is a closed syllable exception?
What is the Chinese writing system?
Use this grapheme to spell the sound /k/ in a glued sound
Two or three consonants, before or after a vowel, that blend together, but each sound can still be heard
What is a blend?
These letters are in a co-dependent relationship, sometimes called buddy letters, we circle them to show they travel together
What is qu?
The syllable type in this two syllable nonsense word
frubmest
What is a closed syllable?
This type of writing system uses symbols or pictures to represent individual sounds
What is an alphabetic writing system?
The three sounds of this suffix -ed
/d/ /t/ and /ed/ or /id/
A digraph and one more consonant before or after a vowel
What is a digraph blend?
The closed syllable exceptions
What are ind, ild, old, olt, and ost
The syllable type shown here in this word
blind
What is a closed syllable exception?
The earliest writing alphabetic writing system is called hieroglyphics and was created by this group of people
What are the Egyptians?
The sound the suffix -ed spells after a base word ending in an unvoiced sound
What is /t/?