Name that vowel
Terms
Phonemes
Consonants
Digraphs, Clusters and Blends
100
The long vowel heard in the nonsense word moad.
What is long o sound.
100
In order to read we must be able to translate the written symbols into the correct speech sounds.
What is decode.
100
How many phonemes in the word cat?
What is 3.
100
What is unusual about the consonants w and y?
What is they are sometimes used as vowels.
100
Two consonants that make one single sound such as in chair.
What is a digraph.
200
The y in pretty.
What is the long e sound.
200
The smallest unit of sound.
What is a phoneme.
200
What is the difference between the words pin and tin?
What are the phonemes p and t.
200
The number of consonant letters in our alphabet.
What is 21.
200
Two letter graphemes in which both are sounded but blended together.
What is a blend.
300
had, glad, mad
What is the short a sound.
300
Separating words into their individual phonemes is called this.
What is segmenting.
300
How many phonemes in the word cough?
What is three.
300
How many more consonant phonemes are there than letters? (This is why we use some two letter graphemes called digraphs.)
What is 7.
300
Two or more consonants that blend together such as spr in spring.
What is a cluster.
400
The a in march is this.
What is an r-controlled vowel.
400
Combining individual phonemes into meaningful words is this.
What is blending.
400
Why would a Japanese English Language Learner have difficulty saying "fried rice"?
What is the lack of an equivalent for /r/ in the Japanese language.
400
These three letters do not represent their own distinct phonemes so they are considered "unnecessary."
What are c, q, and x.
400
Name the digraphs in chair, ship, thumb, whale.
What are ch, sh, th, wh.
500
When a syllable ends in a vowel phoneme we say it is this.
What is an open syllable.
500
The written representation of a phoneme.
What is a grapheme.
500
A variant form of the same phoneme is called this.
What is an allophone.
500
Name four words in which b is a silent consonant.
What are climb, comb, doubt, subtle...
500
The th digraph can have a stronger sound in thumb than in mother. What is this difference called?
What is voiced and unvoiced digraphs.
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