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Phonemic Awareness Fun
Phonics Foundations
Phonological Awareness
Syllable Sleuth
Sound It Out!
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The smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words.
What is a phoneme?
100
The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes
What is phonics?
100

A term to describe skills such as identifying and manipulating larger parts of spoken language, such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes—as well as phonemes. It also encompasses awareness of other aspects of sound, such as rhyming, alliteration, and intonation.

What is phonological awareness?

100

These types of syllables end with a consonant and have a short vowel sound, like "cat."

 

What is a closed syllable?

100

This many phonemes are in the word "though."

What is two? (/th/ and /o/)

200

44

What is the number of phonemes in English?

200
The letters that represent sounds in written language.
What are graphemes?
200

Clapping your hands for each beat in a word helps develop awareness of these parts of a word.

What are syllables?

200

Closed, Open, Silent-E (Vowel-Consonant-e), Vowel Team (Vowel Digraph/Diphthong), R-Controlled Syllable and Consonant-le (Final Stable Syllable)


What are the six syllable types in English?

200

This term describes two vowels that work together to make a single sound, as in "team" or "boat."

What is a vowel digraph?

300

Changing the /m/ in "man" to /r/ to make "ran" is an example of this skill.

What is phoneme substitution?

300
An approach to phonics instruction where children learn how to convert letters or letter combinations into sounds, and then how to blend the sounds together to form recognizable words.
What is synthetic phonics?
300

This type of phonological skill involves recognizing the smallest unit of sound in a word.

What is phonemic awareness?

300

The number of syllables in the word 'strengthened'. 

What is two?

300

The /str/ in "street" is an example of this type of consonant combination.

What is a consonant blend?

400

Identifying the sound /d/ in the word "dog" demonstrates this phonemic awareness skill.
 

What is initial sound isolation?

400
An approach to phonics instruction where children learn to analyze letter-sound relationships in previously learned words. They do not pronounce sounds in isolation.
What is analytic phonics?
400

In the word "night," these two sounds make up the onset and the rime.

What are /n/ (onset) and /ight/ (rime)?

400

A syllable with a long vowel sound that ends in a vowel, such as "go," is called this type of syllable.

What is an open syllable?

400

In the word "kite," the letter "e" is silent but does this job.

What is make the vowel long?

500

Removing the /s/ from "star" to create "tar" demonstrates this advanced phonemic awareness skill.

What is phoneme deletion?

500

In the word "kite," the letter "e" is silent but does this job.

What is making the vowel long?

500

Blending phonemes to make words, segmenting words into phonemes, deleting phonemes from words, adding phonemes to words, or substituting one phoneme for another to make a new word

What is phoneme manipulation?

500

The syllable type in the word 'table' is an example of this type.
 

What is consonant-le (or final stable syllable)?

500

This many phonemes are in the word "fix"

What is four? (/f/, /i/, /k/, /s/)