Phonics
Breaking it down
Definitions
100
The vowel and consonant that follow it.
What is the rime?
100
Putting different sounds together to create a word.
What is blending?
100
Two letters that represent one sound.
What is a digraph?
200
Whatever comes before the rime.
What is the onset?
200
The act of replacing one sound for another sound in a word.
What is substituting?
200
The process of identifying words by attaching appropriate sounds to corresponding letters or letter sequences.
What is decoding?
300
The smallest unit of sound.
What is the phoneme?
300
The act of removing a sound from a word to create a new word.
What is deleting?
300
Two connecting vowels that make a distinct sound, unlike either of the two vowels.
What is a diphthong?
400
The unit of writing that represents a phoneme.
What is the grapheme?
400
The act of putting an additional sound into a word.
What is addition?
400
Learning new words by memorizing the entire word.
What is the whole word approach?
500
The understanding that letters represent certain sounds.
What is phonics?
500
The act of singling out a specific sound in a word.
What is isolation?
500
Meaning units (prefixes and suffixes) that are added to root or base words.
What is affix?
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