Reading Vocabulary
Words are made up of a base word and often a ______ and/or a _________ which change the word's meaning or tense.
What is prefix and a suffix?
The suffix rule that this word follows: charging
What is the drop e rule?
There are six categories of these and they help us to read long words.
What are the syllable types: closed, open, vce, r-controlled, vowel team and consonant-le.
This silent letter combination is used in words that all have some connection to "twisting".
What is wr?
This is the suffix can be added to change magic, electric and pediatric into a person.
What is cian?
What are homophones?
This is the suffix rule that this word follows: cried
What is the "y to i" rule?
This syllable type can never be without another syllable attached to its front.
What is consonant-le?
This adjective with a silent letter describes a person who never lies.
What is honest?
This is the root word that means to measure.
What is meter?
The name given to these: ch, sh, th, wh, ph, ck.....
What are digraphs?
These are all of the ways to spell the /sh/ sound.
sh, ch, ti, si, ci
The number of syllables in this word:
environmentalist
What is 6?
This word with a silent letter haunts some houses.
What is a ghost?
This word - we watch shows on it in our family rooms - contains two root words.
What is television (tele + vision)?
These are all the spelling choices for the long e sound.
e, e-e, ee, ea, ey, y, ie, ei
Words do not end in the letters u, v or j. We use __________ to represent these sounds.
Long u: ue or ew
short u: schwa a
v: ve
j: ge or dge
These two months have vowel teams in their name.
What are August and May?
These words are spelled incorrectly: clime, num, bom and thum. The correct silent letter spelling is ____.
What is mb?
This word means a story a person's life.
What is a biography?
This is the term we call a combined for of two words. ex: couldn't
What is a contraction?
This digraph has 3 different sounds. In addition to the sound learned in Kindergarten, one includes french words and one includes greek words.
What is ch?
This is the syllable type that is always in a 1-1-1 word.
What is a closed syllable?
This is the consonant-le exception.
What is stle?
This root word means heat. (hint: What's the temperature in the house? Check the ______).
What is therm?