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An instructional approach that focuses on the systematic relationship between letters and sounds, and how sounds map to letters to form words.
What is phonics?
The awareness that spoken language can be broken into smaller units such as words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes.
What is phonological awareness?
The combination of two or more letters that produce two or more sounds. The bl in black is an initial consonant blend. The ft in raft is a final consonant blend.
What is a blend?
A single word that results from combining two words. One or more letters is omitted from the words and an apostrophe is inserted where a letter or letters have been omitted.
What is a contraction?
This is what sea otters do when they sleep.
What is hold hands? (so they don't drift away)
Units of speech that consist of at least a vowel, but usually other sounds before and/or after the vowel (bat, sis-ter, mo-tor-cy-cle).
What are syllables?
The combination of two words to make a different word. An example is: (bird + house = birdhouse).
What are compounds?
Word parts added to the beginning or ending of a word in order to change its meaning (Prefixes and Suffixes).
What are Affixes?
Endings added to a base word such as –s, -es, -ed, and –ing.
What are inflections?
Between 1900 and 1920 this was an Olympic event.
What is tug of war?
a, e, i, o, and u.. Some can make many sounds, which are traditionally classified as short or long sounds. There are no contact points between the lips, teeth, and tongue when saying this sound.
The insight that every spoken word can be conceived as a series of phonemes.
What is phonemic awareness?
Two letters written together to form one sound. They include sh, ch, and th and ay, ea, and ee.
What is a digraph?
The number of students in this class.
What is 26?
Google's original name
What is Backrub?
The spelling system of a language.
What is orthography?
In any syllable, this includes all the sounds from the vowel to the end of the syllable. In meet, this is /eet/.
What is the Rime?
Two vowels that make two sounds in the mouth. Examples include the oi in oil and the oy in toy.
What is a dipthong?
The year Baldwin Wallace was founded.
What is 1845?
The most shoplifted food item in the US.
What is candy?
All the letters of the alphabet except a, e, i, o, and u. These sounds are formed when there is an obstruction of air.
What are consonants?
The smallest unit of sound in spoken language. The words cup and pup differ by one of these. They are usually written /s/. The word pup has three
/p/, /u/, /p/.
What is a phoneme?
A vowel or vowel digraph in an unstressed syllable. It can be spelled in different ways. It sounds a bit like a short /u/ sound. Examples include the a in about and the ai in certain.
What is a schwa?
The number of students that attend BW.
What is 3,532?
This can be heard from two miles away.
What is a blue whale's heartbeat?