Phonics Fundamentals
With the Ear
Thinking in Parts
What Does it Mean?
Wildcard!
100

This term refers to the smallest unit of sound in speech.

What is a phoneme?

100

This number represents how many speech sounds are in the word grass.

4

100

This number of syllables appears in the word observer.

What is 3?

100

This term refers to the smallest meaningful unit in a language.

What is a morpheme?

100

The mb in the word numb are referred to as this term.

What are consonant digraphs?

200

If tife were a word, the letter “i” would be called this type of vowel sound. 

What is a long vowel sound?

200

This describes the ability to break down and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language.

What is phonemic awareness? 

200

The number of syllables in the word frogs.

What is one?

200

This is the number of morphemes in the word frogs.

What is 2?

200

This is the name for a speech sound made with an open vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely from the lungs through the mouth without obstruction from the tongue, teeth, or lips

What is a vowel?

300

This is the name for a group of two or three consonants pronounced so that each maintains its own sound.

What is a blend?
300

The understanding of how spoken language is broken down and manipulated.

What is phonological awareness?

300

The word napkin contains two of this type of syllable. 

What is a closed syllable?

300

This is the number of morphemes in the word teacher.

What is two?

300

This is the term for a the following phonological awareness activity: "Say the word 'cat'. Now say the word without the /k/ sound."

What is deletion?

400

This is the term for the sound of the letter c as it is pronounced in the word city.

What is a soft c? 

400

The number of phonemes in the word shoe.

What is 2?

400

The number of syllables in the word disassemble.

What is 4?

400

The root meaning full of thanks.

What is grat?

400

Identify the consonant digraph in the following word: spherical

What is ph?

500

Sh, Ch, and Ph are referred to as this type of sound.

What is a digraph?

500

If you say the word "ice" and then reverse the order of the sounds, the result would be this word.

What is sigh? 

500

The first syllable in bacon is called this syllable type.

What is an open syllable?

500
In the Active View of Reading, morphological awareness falls in this category of the framework.

What is a Bridging Process? 

500

If you say the word 'enough' and then reverse the order of the sounds, this would be the resulting word.

What is funny?

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