Sounds and Letters
The smallest unit of a sound in a spoken word.
What is a phoneme?
What is phonics?
When two consonants come together and each sound is heard, yet they blend together.
What is a consonant blend?
A syllable with a short vowel that ends in a consonant.
When a vowel sound makes the "lazy/ weak" sound in an unstressed syllable.
What is schwa?
The letter or clump of letters that represents a sound.
What is a grapheme?
Reading words. From letters to sounds.
What is decoding?
When two consonants come together to create one sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
A syllable that ends with a vowel and has the long vowel sound.
What is an open syllable?
Knowing how to connect letters to sounds during reading and writing. The relationship between graphemes and phonemes.
What is graphophonemic knowledge?
The type of letter that is not a vowel.
What is a consonant?
Spelling words. From sounds to letters.
What is encoding?
Two vowels that come together to create one sound.
What is a vowel digraph?
A syllable that ends with an e, making the vowel long.
What is the silent e/ magic e syllable?
A syllable that includes at least two letters, often vowels that work together to make one sound.
What is a vowel team syllable?
This type of letter can make long or short sounds and it is not a consonant.
What is a vowel?
Being able to match the letters to their sounds.
What is the alphabetic principle?
When a two vowels make a distinct sound. ex: ai in rain.
What is a diphthong?
A syllable where the vowel is followed by an r, which changes the sound of the vowel.
What is a vowel-r syllable/ r-controlled syllable?
A syllable that is always at the end of the word. In this syllable type, there always needs to be at least two syllables in the word. examples: le, tion.
What is a final stable syllable?