Phon Words
Units of Speech
Articulations
Phonemic Awareness Activities
100

Conscious awareness of all levels of the speech sound system, including word boundaries, stress patterns, syllables, onset-rime units, and phonemes.

What is Phonological Awareness?

100

Has a consistent pronunciation, a consistent meaning, and a place within sentence structure.

What is a "word"?

100

Made with one burst of sound like /p/ & /b/.

What are "stops"?

100

Silly snakes slither across the slippery sand.

What is "alliteration"?

200

Smallest unit of sound in any language used to build words.

What is a Phoneme?

200

A unit of speech that is organized around a vowel sound.

What is a "syllable"?

200

These sounds are articulated with the air stream directed through the nose.

What are "nasals"?

200

Break long words into parts and leave a part out.  EX. If I say toothpaste, and leave off tooth, what's left?

What is "syllable deletion"?

300

The conscious awareness of the individual speech sounds in spoken syllables and the ability to consciously manipulate those sounds.

What is Phonemic Awareness?

300

Repetition of initial sounds in two or more words or syllables.

What is "alliteration"?

300

These are hissy sounds.

What are "fricatives"?

300

Saying one sound at a time /p/-/e/-/g/.

What is "blending phonemes"?

400

The role system in a language by which phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make words.

What is Phonology?

400

A syllable always has a _____--the vowel and any consonants that follow it.  Most also have an _____--consonant that comes before the vowel.

What is "onset & rime"?

400

These sounds are made with the tongue pulled a little farther back and placed on the hard palate on the roof of the mouth. 

What is an "affricative"?

400

Students are given three rhyming words and asked to give another word for the list.

What is "rhyme production"?

500

The study of the sounds of human speech; articulatory phonetics refers to the way the sounds are physically produced in the human vocal tract.

What is Phonetics?

500

The smallest segment of sound that differentiates words in a language system.

What is a "phoneme"?

500

These sounds seem to float in the mouth.  They influence vowels that come before them.

What are "liquids"?

500

Say peas without the /p/.

Say sheet without the /t/.

What is "sound deletion"?