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21 Cards in this Set
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Phonics |
A method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading |
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Phonetics |
The study of human speech sounds |
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Phoneme |
The smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes one word from another |
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Phonemic awareness |
The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds |
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Consonant |
A sound represented by any letter of the English alphabet except a,e,i,o,u,w,y |
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Consonant blend |
Sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities |
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Vowel |
A sound represented by a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet |
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Closed syllable |
Any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme (sound) |
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Open syllable |
Any syllable that ends with a vowel sound (phoneme) |
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Breve |
The orthographic symbol (u) placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a short sound (sometimes called an unglided vowel) |
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Macron |
The orthographic symbol (—) placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a long sound (sometimes called a glided vowel) |
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Umlaut |
The orthographic symbol (..) placed above vowel graphemes to indicate pronunciation |
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Diphthong |
A single vowel sound made up of a glide from one vowel sound to another in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable |
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R-controlled vowel |
When a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it affects the vowel sound so that it is neither short nor long |
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Schwa sound |
An unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables |
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Grapheme |
A letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme |
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Digraph |
Two letters that stand for a single phoneme |
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Onset |
The consonant sound(s) of a syllable that come(s) from the vowel sound |
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Rime |
The part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sound(s) that come(s) after it |
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Phonogram |
A letter sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and (an) ending constant grapheme(s), such as -ig in wig, dig, big or the -ack in back, tack, sack |
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Syllable |
A unit of of pronunciation consisting of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants |
