Vowels
Letters that are not consonants
vowels
A syllable that ends in a consonant sound, such as in the second syllable in ho-tel.
Closed syllable
Meaning-bearing units in a word, usually roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Morphemes
A letter that is not a vowel
consonant
The awareness that spoken language is composed of separate words that make up sentences and that words are made up of syllables.
Phonological awareness
Two vowel letters that produce a gliding sound.
Dipthong/vowel digraph
Syllables that end in a vowel sound, such as the first syllable in ho-tel
open syllable
Something before a root word that usually changes meaning.
Prefix
Two or more consonants in which you can hear both sounds blended.
Consonant blends/consonant clusters
The ability to manipulate the sounds in words.
Phonemic Awareness
Vowels that say their names
Long vowels
Units of sound that contain a vowel and may be preceded or followed by one or more consonants.
syllables
Something added to the end of a base word or root word.
Suffix
Two consonant letters with a single sound different from that of either of the letters: sh, ch, wh, th, ph.
Consonant digraph
The smallest units of speech-bad has 3, good has 3.
Phonemes
Vowels in which the vowel sound is affected by the r as in car, her, girl.
R controlled vowels
Syllables that have two vowels with one sound.
Vowel team syllables/vowel diagraphs
Identifying word parts such as compound words, affixes, roots and syllables.
Structural analysis
All the beginning letter of the word up to the vowel. Ex. the sp in spend
To figure out the pronunciation of a word.
The vowel in an unaccented syllable, sound like "uh". Examples the a in alone, the o in harmony.
Schwa
A word to which prefixes and/or suffixes can be added.
base word/root word
Endings added to words to change where in the sentence they are used.
Inflected endings
When C and G are pronounced like S and J when followed by e, i or y as in cent, city, gentle and gist.
Soft C and G
To write or spell a word
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