Putting phonemes together to create a word
(e.g., /c/-/a/-/t/ = “cat”)
What is phoneme blending
100
The smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is a phoneme?
100
These are the first thing we teach when teaching phonics.
What are letter sounds?
100
The vowel sound in a C-V-C-e word
What is long?
100
A technique to teach students to segment sounds in words that uses chips and boxes or an arrow line.
What is Say-It-and-Move-It (or Elkonin boxes)?
200
Identifying beginning sounds is in this tier of phonological awareness.
What is the middle/second tier?
200
The mental manipulation of individual sounds in words.
What is phonemic awareness?
200
The reason we shouldn't teach all consonant sounds first is this.
What is that you need a vowel to make a word.
200
Number of audible syllables in the word jumped.
What is 1?
200
Teaching students to make and read words by keeping the rime pattern the same and changing the onset is using this.
What is word families (or phonograms)?
300
Hearing and saying all sounds in a word (e.g. “cat” = /c/-/a/-/t/).
What is phoneme segmentation?
300
The part of the syllable that includes the vowel sound and what comes after it
What is the rime?
300
This core area is instruction in how letters map onto sounds, or instruction in the alphabetic principle.
What is phonics?
300
Two vowels that go together to make one sound.
What are vowel digraphs (or "talkers")?
300
A teaching technique where the teacher tells students letters to put together and the students read the resulting word, then change one letter and read the new word.
What is word building?
400
Another name for phonological/phonemic awareness.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
400
Two consonants together in a word that create one new sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
400
The difference between phonics and phonemic awareness is this.
What is phonemic awareness is hearing sounds in words where phonics is linking sounds with letters?
400
The sound(s) that come before a vowel in a syllable.
What is the onset?
400
Boxes that are used to help children segment sounds by moving one marker into one box for each sound in a word.
What are Elkonin boxes?
500
The number of phonemes in the word "strand."
What is 6?
500
Two or three consonants together in a word, each maintaining its own sound.
What is a consonant blend?
500
The grades in which phonics instruction is most prevalent.
What is K-2?
500
Two vowel sounds that glide from one to another in the same syllable.
What is a vowel diphthong ("whiner")?
500
A type of book with phonetically-controlled text to help children practice applying sound/symbol knowledge during reading.