Rules & Strategies
Syllables & Words
Diphthongs & Digraphs
Long & Short Vowels
44 English Phonemes
100
The strategies a reader uses to identify a word.
What are word identification strategies?
100
A syllable that ends in a consonant sound, which uses the short vowel sound.
What is a closed syllable?
100
Two vowels that produce one sound and the mouth moves while making the phoneme.
What is a diphthong?
100
The -ace spelling pattern is an example of this.
What is a long-a vowel sound?
100
Way that the /r/ phoneme can be written.
What are r- and rh-?
200
The most commonly used words, also known as glue words, that we see all the time.
What are high frequency words?
200
A syllable that ends in a vowel phoneme, which almost always uses a long vowel sound.
What is an open syllable?
200
The ee /e-/ digraph word families.
What are -eed, -ee, -eet, -eep, -een, -eek?
200
The word fetch is an example of this.
What is a short-e vowel sound?
200
The spelling for the /n/ consonant phoneme.
What are n-, kn-, and pn-?
300
Words that cannot be decoded and must be memorized.
What are sight words?
300
Words that are spelled that sound the same but are spelled different and have two different meanings.
What is a homophone?
300
The definition of a digraph.
What are two consonants representing one unique sound?
300
The spelling pattern -iff is an example of this.
What is a short-i vowel spelling pattern?
300
The word thumb is an example of this
What is the unvoiced and soft /th/ phoneme?
400
The second most common pattern for long vowel words and the pattern can only be used in one syllable words.
What is the "silent e" or "magic e" rule?
400
Words that have the same spelling but different pronunciation and different meanings.
What is a homograph?
400
The oa /o-/ digraphs word families.
What are -aot, -oam, -oad, -oap, -oan, -oak?
400
The definition of a long vowel.
What is a sound that usually says the name of the letter?
400
The ways the /sh/ phoneme can be written.
What are sh-, ch-, c-, -ci, and -ce?
500
The four strategies used to identify or recognize a word.
What are decoding, spelling patterns, word families, and analogies?
500
An examples of a homonym.
What is bear?
500
The /oi/ and /ou/ diphthong word families.
What are -oil, -oin, -oist, -oint, -oist, -oy, -ouch, -oud, -ounce, -ount, -ound, -our, -ouse, -out, -outh, -ow, -owl, -own?
500
The short-o vowel spelling patterns.
What are -ob, -ock, -od, -oft, -og, -omp, -ond, -op, -ot, -otch, - ough, -ox?
500
The ways the /k/ phoneme can be written.
What are k-, c-, ch-, kh-, -lk, -cc, and -x?
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