Sounds
These sounds are voiced and unblocked.
What are vowel sounds?
This syllable has complete meaning and does not need another syllable.
What is a baseword?
This stroke begins at the baseline and stops at the midline.
What is a short swing up?
A code for a vowel when it is followed by a consonant. A closed syllable.
What is a breve?
These letters are doubled after a closed vowel in a one syllable baseword.
What is the FLOSS rule?
These sounds are blocked by the lips, teeth, tongue, or throat and can be voiced OR unvoiced.
What are consonant sounds?
This syllable needs another syllable to make it a word with meaning.
What is a detached syllable?
This approach stroke pushes up to the midline and rounds down.
What is a push up over and go?
This represents an unaccented sound when /a/ is all by itself and says /uh/.
What is a letter 'a' with a dot over it?
The sound /ch/ is spelled with a digraph after a consonant or double vowel.
What is digraph ch?
When you see these marks around a letter, (/k/) you are to say this.
What is the sound of the letter?
A syllable that has one vowel followed by a consonant.
What is a closed syllable?
This stroke begins at the baseline and stops at the top line?
What is a long swing up?
This is when you underline two letters that represent one sound.
What is underlining a digraph?
This letter or group of letters is added to the end of a baseword to change how we use the word.
What is a suffix?
Every sound has this to unlock the sound.
What is a keyword?
A syllable that has two adjacent vowels.
What is a double vowel syllable?
This approach stroke starts at the base line and curves up to the midline?
What is curve up over and stop?
This represents a naming letter sound.
What is a macron?
After a closed vowel in the first syllable when only one consonant sound is heard, the consonant is doubled to keep the first vowel closed.
What is the rabbit vs. robin rule?
When two adjacent letters represent one sound.
What is a digraph?
This syllable ends with a vowel and the letter sound is the same as the letter name.
What is an open syllable?
These are the names for the three lines in handwriting.
What is baseline, midline, and top line?
This represents the sound /ng/ when letter 'n' is followed by the sound /k/.
What is a g curve?
This is the response you need to give when given the sound /k/.
K before i or e, C before a, o, u, or another C., in the final position C after a closed vowel in a two or more syllable word, K after a consonant, CK after a closed vowel in a one syllable word.