Definitions
The study of the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent
What is phonics?
Your mouth open when you say this ____, your mouth is closed when you say this _____
What is a vowel? and What is a constant?
The total amount of letters in the English alphabet?
What is the number 26?
There are __ types of syllables in the English language.
What is 6?
The smallest unit of meaning in a language
What is morpheme?
____ is the written symbol and ___ is an individual sound
Name all of the vowels (do not include "y")
What is "a", "e", "i", "o", and "u"?
This syllable type has one vowel followed by at least one consonant. The vowel sound will be short.
What is a closed syllable?
The ability to translate a word from print to speech. employing grapho-phonemic knowledge and stable patterns; also known as sounding out words
What is decoding?
___ letter-sound relationships are directly taught vs ___ teaching letter/symbol and sound correlations before moving to teaching syllable patterns within words
What is explicit phonics instruction? and What is systematic phonics instruction?
The number of constants in the alphabet (include y as one)
What is 21?
"Me" is an example of this syllable type.
What is "open syllable"?
The ability to correctly identify and name the letters of the alphabet
What is letter recognition?
English is a (shallow/deep) language, and Spanish is a (shallow/deep) language.
English is considered a deep language because it has multiple sounds for letters/multiple letters for a single phoneme. Spanish is considered shallow because the sound symbol relationships are mostly regular and predictable.
The total number of sounds the English alphabet represents?
What is roughly(+/- 3) 44?
This syllable type contains two vowels next to one another.
What is a vowel pair syllable?
The ability to articulate the correct sound or sounds associated with each letter or symbol
What is grapho-phonemic knowlege?
___ one sound represented by a letter/symbol vs ___ multiple sounds for letters/multiple sounds for a single phoneme
What is shallow alphabetic orthographies? And what are deep alphabetic systems?
Name the alphabet backwards, one volunteer from each group, whoever gets the farthest gets the points
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The 5 syllable types discussed in the text are _______.
What are open, closed, vowel pair, vowel-r, and final stable syllable.