Terminology
Vowels
Syllabication
Consonants
Potpourri
100
Two letters, one sound
What is a digraph?
100
When two vowels go a walking, the first one does this.
What is all the talking?
100
Number of vowel sounds per syllable
What is one?
100
A C followed by an A, O or U.
What is a hard C?
100
He wrote LOSER
Who is Jerry Spinelli?
200
Collective term for prefixes and suffixes
What are affixes?
200
oi, ou, oy, ow
What are diphthongs?
200
Most vowels in closed syllables are this.
What are short vowels?
200
SH, CH and TH
What are consonant digraphs?
200
Most linguists agree somewhere around 44
What is the number of phonemes in English?
300
Vowel sound in an unaccented syllable that often sounds like short u
What is schwa?
300
This what most vowels sound like in a VCE pattern.
What is a long vowel?
300
The split in a VCCV pattern
What is between the C/C?
300
A word with a three letter S blend
What is street, sprinkle, etc?
300
Alphabet soup
What is Martha Dog's magical food?
400
The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds
What is phonemic awareness?
400
FAR, FERN, FIR, FOR and FUR
What are words with r-controlled vowels?
400
The number of syllables in the word monosyllabic
What is five?
400
The difference between the TH in thumb and the TH in Them
What is the difference between unvoiced and voiced?
400
75%
What is the percentage of time a rule should work to be useful?
500
A stable cluster of graphemes that represent a sound pattern
What is a phonogram?
500
This word violates the CVC rule.
What is kind, mold, etc.?
500
The weird thing about the syllabic division of poet.
What is it splits between the two vowels.
500
OF
What is the only word in the English language where the f sounds like a v?
500
He wrote the bets limericks in the land.
Who is a fellow named Stan?
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