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100

The difference between a consonant and a vowel.

What is obstruction of the air flow when making a sound?

100

Children learn letter-sound relationships by participating in authentic reading experiences. Less explicit, embedded into the text. 

What is embedded phonics instruction?

100

The condition under which R, W, and Y act as consonants.

What is when they are positioned at the beginning of a word or a syllable?

100

A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.


What is phonics?

100

The understanding that letters and letter combinations represent sounds.

What is the alphabetic principle?

200

These letters have no sound of their own.

What are C, X, and Q?

200

To write or spell a word.

What is encoding?

200

The three types of vowels.

What are long, short, and r-controlled?

200

The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.

What is decoding?

200

Words that occur frequently in print, but often are phonetically irregular.

What are sight words?

300

Two or more consonants in which you can hear both sounds blended.

What are consonant blends?

300

Two vowel letters that produce a "gliding" sound.

What is a diphthong?

300

One of these is NOT a vowel digraph.

ea, oa, oi

What is oi?

300

These are examples of this pattern.

                 ch, th, sh

What are consonant digraphs?

300

Traditional instruction where students change letters into speech sounds and blend them together (sounding out).

What is the synthetic approach to phonics instruction?

400

The vowel in an unaccented syllable, which sounds kind of like "uh".

What is a schwa?

400

The vowel and following consonant(s) within a syllable.

What is a rime?

400

Two consecutive vowels producing one sound.

What are vowel digraphs?

400

Children learn to use parts of word families they know to identify words that have similar parts. 

What is analogic phonics instruction?

400

Instruction focusing on segmenting words into phonemes and writing letters that represent the sounds.

What is Phonics Instruction Through Spelling?

500

The names of the six syllable patterns (types).

What are closed, open, vowel-consonant-silent e, vowel team (pair), r-controlled, and consonant-le?

500

The number of graphemes in the word ship.

What are three?

500

All the beginning letters up to a vowel.

What are onsets?

500

Learn to understand letters-sound relationships in previously learned words. They do not pronounce words in isolation. Example:  Students study previously learned whole words to discover letter sounds relationships. (pl, play, plan, plot ).

What is analytic phonics instruction?

500

A word or part of a word that contains one vowel.

What is a syllable?