PA Skills
The ability to hear whether words end with the same sound
What is rhyming?
A speech sound articulated with vibrating vocal cards.
What is a voiced sound?
I have 3 different sounds, spelled by two letters, I’m added at the end of a word
What is suffix -ed?
This syllable has an r after the vowel; the vowel makes an unexpected sound
What is the r-controlled syllable?
The writing system of a language
What is orthography?
The understanding that sentences are composed of separate words
What is sentence segmentation?
The six orthographic patterns in English used to build words
What are the 6 Syllable types?
I’m sometimes added to the end of word when someone speaks, but if you are teaching sounds, make sure you clip me.
Hint: I'm usually found only in the unaccented syllable.
What is the schwa sound?
This syllable ends in at least one consonant; the vowel is short
What is a closed syllable? (VC)
The rule system within a language by which phonemes are sequenced and uttered to make words
What is phonology?
A word chunk organized around a vowel sound
What is a syllable?
Ability to translate a word from print to speech
What is decoding?
I’m not a vowel, but sometimes I pretend, but only when I come at the end.
What is the letter y or w?
This syllable ends in one vowel; the vowel is long
What is an open syllable? (CV)
The study of the smallest meaningful parts of a word
What is morphology?
The ability to manipulate, blend, and segment sounds
What is phonemic awareness?
A vowel sound that has a glide where your mouth begins in one place and ends in another
What is a diphthong?
I sneak up to the end of words, and change the sound of the vowel
What is silent -e?
This syllable has a final consonant combination that is reliable, but nonphonetic
What is a final stable syllable?
The knowledge of words and word meanings both orally and in print
What is vocabulary?
These skills are a prerequisite for students to to develop in order to become successful readers
What is phonological awareness?
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; may be one, two, three or four letters
What is a grapheme?
I have a twin, but only one of us can be felt.
What are voiced and unvoiced sounds?
This syllable has two adjacent vowels that make a single sound
What is a vowel pair or vowel digraph?
Knowledge of letters and letter combinations and the sounds they represent
What is graphophonemic knowledge?