Consonant and Vowels
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Knowledge of/ Systems
Encoding, Recoding, Decoding, and Phonics
Systems and Vocab
100

Two vowels placed together, but only the long sound of one of the vowels is heard. Example: Rain and steam 

What is Vowel Digraphs 

100

The Understanding that letters represent certain sounds (written letters and the oral processing)

What is Phonics? 

100

Basic knowledge about how print and books in general work 

What is Concepts of Print 

100

Essentially a reading process 

What is Decoding 

100

Written representation of a phoneme 

What is a Grapheme 

200

Two vowels placed together in a word that produce a single glide. 

What is a Vowel Dipthong

200

The Smallest Unit of sound in spoken words that affects the word's meaning 

What is a Phoneme 

200

Children with this understand that print has different functions depending on the context in which it appears. 

What is Print Awareness 

200

Essentially a writing process 

What is Encoding 

200

Put sounds together to make a word before hearing a word 

What is blending 

300

Two connecting consonants that make a unique sound. Example: s and t in stop. 

What is a consonant cluster 
300

Words that share the same sounds but not necessarily the same letter endings 

What is Rhyme 

300

Words are composed of letters that represent sounds. 

What is Alphabetic understanding 

300

Students convert letters into sounds and then blend the sounds to form a word


What is Synthetic Phonics 

300

Pull sounds apart after hearing the entire word 

What is segmenting 

400

Two connecting consonants that make one sound. Example: s and h in sheep. 

What is consonant diagraphs? 
400

Always ends with the same letters 

What is Rime 

400

Knowing letters and combos of letters are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language. 

What is the Alphabetic Principle 

400

Using systematic relationships between letters and phonemes (letter-sound correspondence) to retrieve the pronunciation of an unknown printed string or to spell words.


What is Phonological Recoding 

400

What is the relationship between letters and their sounds called? 

What is Graphophonic system 

500

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500

Like Phonological Awareness, _____ involves an understanding of the way that sounds function in words, but focuses only on Phonemes 

What is Phonemic Awareness? 

500

Involves knowledge about forming the 26 letters of the alphabet


What is Graphic 

500

Teachers begin with sight words, known words developed from authenic reading, and then guide the students to analyze patterns and identify the phonics generalizations


What is Analytic Phonics 

500

The ability to identify and manipulate various units of sound in speech, including syllables, onsets, rimes, rhymes, as distinct from their meaning


What is Phonological Awareness

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