Phonemic Awareness Fun
What is a phoneme?
The smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words.
What is the alphabetic principle?
The alphabetic principle is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.
What is phonological awareness?
A term to describe skills such as identifying and manipulating larger parts of spoken language, such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes—as well as phonemes. It also encompasses awareness of other aspects of sound, such as rhyming, alliteration, and intonation.
These types of syllables end with a consonant and often include a short vowel sound, like "cat."
What is a closed syllable?
This many phonemes are in the word "though."
There are two (/th/ and /o/)
What is the number of phonemes in English?
44
What must every syllable in a word include?
A vowel sound
Clapping your hands for each beat in a word helps develop awareness of these parts of a word.
What are syllables?
What kind of syllable with a long vowel sound that ends in a vowel, such as "go," is called this type of syllable.
An open syllable ends with a long vowel sound.
This term describes two vowels that work together to make a single sound, as in "team" or "boat."
vowel digraph
Changing the /m/ in "man" to /r/ to make "ran" is an example of this skill.
What is phoneme substitution?
Homophones and Homonyms are the same thing.
No, homophones and homonyms are not the same thing. While both involve words that sound alike, they differ in spelling and definition.
This type of phonological skill involves recognizing the smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is phonemic awareness?
Is the word "boiling" a vowel digraph or vowel diphthong?
It is a diphthong because the "oi" make a unique sound from /o/ or /i/.
The /str/ in "street" is an example of this type of consonant combination.
Consonant Blend
Removing the /s/ from "star" to create "tar" demonstrates this advanced phonemic awareness skill.
What is phoneme deletion?
What is synthetic phonics?
An approach to phonics instruction where children learn how to convert letters or letter combinations into sounds, and then how to blend the sounds together to form recognizable words.
Blending phonemes to make words, segmenting words into phonemes, deleting phonemes from words, adding phonemes to words, or substituting one phoneme for another to make a new word
What is phoneme manipulation?
The syllable type in the word 'table' is an example of this type.
What is consonant-le (or final stable syllable)?
What is the name of understanding root words and word parts?
Morphological knowledge
Identifying the sound /d/ in the word "dog" demonstrates this phonemic awareness skill.
What is initial sound isolation?
In what order do we teach phonics skills on the phonics continuum?
consonants, vowels, cvc words, consonant digraphs/consonant blends, silent e and vowel digraphs, complex vowels (irregular), trigraphs and multisyllabic words.
In the word "night," these two sounds make up the onset and the rime.
What are /n/ (onset) and /ight/ (rime)?
What are the 6 types of syllables?
Closed, Open, Silent-E (Vowel-Consonant-e), Vowel Team (Vowel Digraph/Diphthong), R-Controlled Syllable and Consonant-le (Final Stable Syllable)
What are the 5 steps to decode a multisyllabic word?
Find affix/suffix
find vowels
divide syllables
decode/segment the syllables
try blending the word