Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
100
Graphophonic
What is describing the relationship between sounds in our language and the written letters or spelling patterns?
100

Phoneme

What is the smallest single unit of sound in a language?

100

Onset

What is the initial consonant sound found at the beginning of syllables and words?

100
Unvoiced "th"
What is the initial phoneme heard in the key word "thumb", in which the vocal cords do not vibrate during the production of the phoneme?
100
Graphophonics
What is the relationship between sounds in our language and the written word?
200

Phonological Awareness

What is the term used to label the conscious awareness about the sounds of words in language? Usually children acquire this before phonemic awareness.

200
Morpheme
What is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?
200
Rime
What is the limited set of the most common endings to syllables and words?
200

Dipthongs

What are the vowel digraphs: oi, oy, ow, ou, ai, oo?

200
Synonym
What is another term that is similar and may be used as a definition?
300
Orthography
What is the term used to refer to the writing system of a language?
300
Grapheme
What is a written or printed representation of a phoneme?
300
Consonant Digraphs
What are two different consonant letters that appear together and represent a single sound, or phoneme, not usually associated with either letter?
300
Word Analysis
What is the term for analyzing written words and constructing both their sounds and meanings?
300
Noun
What is a person, place, or thing?
400
Semantic Clues
What is the term to use a sentence to determine the meaning of a word in context?
400
Phonological Analysis
What is analysis of sounds at the word and syllable level?
400
Consonant Clusters
What are two or three consonants that often appear together?
400
Vowels
What are a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w?
400
Comparison patterns
What is it called when a reader uses word patterns to determine word meaning?
500
Syntactic Cues
What is the term called when a student uses clues about the sentence structure to determine the meaning of a word? For exampe: Throw me the drundle. Drundle is a noun.
500
Alphabetic Principle
What is a close relationship between the letters and sounds in a language?
500
Voiced "th"
What is the initial phoneme heard in the key word "that" in which the vocal cords vibrate during the production of the phoneme?
500
Silent vowel
What is it a vowel that appears in a written word but is not heard in the spoken word?
500
Macron
What is a symbol used to represent a long vowel sound?
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