Oral Word Parts
What is a Vowel
Represents no restrictions to airflow when producing a sound
The smallest unit of sound within oral words
What are letter strings?
Letter in printed words are designed to line up with the phoneme sequence (or "string") in spoken words
What is rhyming?
Juxtaposing two or more words that have a similar sounding oral rime unit
What is an alliteration?
Word play that involves using many words sharing the same beginning sounds
What is a Consonant?
Represents various types of restrictions to airflow when producing a sound
What is a Grapheme?
A single or multiple letter unit of print that corresponds to a single phoneme
What are sight words?
Words that are known without any decoding, or effort presented by the reader
What is an onset?
The consonant or consonants within a syllable that precede the vowel
What is a onset-rime level?
A level of phonological awareness development that is more difficult than basic syllable-level awareness, but less difficult than phoneme-level awareness
What is a Schwa?
A very short vowel sound, almost like a brief short U sound, that appears in words; typically in a non-stressed syllable of a multisyllable word
What is an Oral Blend?
The process of taking individual parts of oral words and blending them together to make a word
What is sight vocabulary?
The pool of words that a person can identify immediately and effortlessly
What is a rime?
An alternative spelling of rhyme
What are stressed/unstressed syllables?
The part of a multisyllable word that receives more emphasis/ Unstressed syllables often have a vowel reduction
What is a dipthong?
When two vowels together each provide some contribution to the resulting sound
What is a Digraph?
Combination of two letters in which the sounds of the two letters are pronounced together and each sound is not distinctly heard
What are irregular words?
Words that do not conform to traditional phonic spelling patterns
What is a syllable?
A word or part of a word that involves one voicing
What is orthographic mapping?
The mental process we use to store words for immediate, effortless retrieval
When can humans start to differentiate between sounds
In the womb
Are digraphs/blends limited to vowels or consonants?
No, neither is limited
What are nonsense words?
Pronounceable letter patterns that are not real words, such as blamp, vit, and torg
What is does it mean to be multisyllabic?
To refers to words with more than one syllable
What is phonological awareness?
Having an awareness of sound properties of words