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18 Cards in this Set
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1. vowels are sounds produced without a restriction in the airstream. there are five letters that are often associated with vowel sounds: a, e, _____, _____, _____. also, yand w sometimes represent _____ sounds
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i o u
vowel |
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2. letter-sound relationships for vowels closely follow the categories used for _____. thus, ther are single vowels as well as vowel clusters.
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consonants
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4. a long vowel sound is identical to the vowel names of the traditional vowel letters: a,e,i,o,u. thus, the vowel in the word mine represents the _____, or glided, vowel sound for i. In the word make, you hear a long, or glided, _____ sound.
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long
a |
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5. long vowel sounds occur most frequently in two positions: 1 when a vowel occurs at the _____ of a word mor syllable and 2 when a vowel is followed by a consonant and the letter e at the end of a _____, the final e in this pattern is usually _____.
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end
word silent (a marker) |
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6. Each of the vowels also represent a short, or unglided, vowel sound. These _____ vowel sounds often learned along with a set of key words.
a as in apple e as in egg i as in ink o as in octopus u as in umbrella |
short
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short ________ sounds occr most frequently in a word of syllable that ends in a consonant or cluster such as hap-py, let, in, ot-ter, or fun.
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vowerl
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9. when a vowel is followed by r, the r influences the vowel sound. These are called ________-controlled vowel sounds. They are neither long nor short, but have a sound determined largely by the following r.
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r
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10. the letter y may function as a single consonant or a single ________
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vowel
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11. like consonants, vowels appear in clusters. vowel ________ consist of two or three vowel leters that often appear together, such as ou, ee, ai, oy. there are two types of vowel clusters: vowel digraphs and vowel blends
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clusters
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two vowels appearing together that represent a single ________ are called vowel ________.
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phoneme
digraphs |
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vowel blends are a second type of vowel cluster. vowel blends are two vowel letters that appear together and represent a belnding of the sounds often associated with each letter like oi, oy, ou. In each letter, you can hear elements of each vowel ________ blended together. some people refer to vowel blends by the name ________
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sound
diphthong |
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Examples of vowel ________ are: oil, boy, out and cow.
Examples of vowel ________ are: toe, pie, easy, play, grow, rain. |
diphthongs
digraphs |
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Digraphs and diphthongs are two types of ________ clusters. Each is composed of ________ vowels. a digraph represents ________ sound. A diphthong represents a blend of ________ sounds within a single syllable.
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vowel
two one two |
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19. A CVC pattern represents as vowel that appears in a word or syllable surrounded by two ________ such as the word hot.
A cv pattern represents a word or syllable in which the vowel appears at the ________ of a word, as in me. |
consonants
end |
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in single syllable words, when there is ________ vowel in a word and the word ends in a ________, the vowel usually represents the ________ sound.
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one
consonant short |
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when the only vowel in a word is at the ________ of the word, the vowel is usually ________.
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end
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VCE:
When a word has two vowels, one of which is a final ________, separated from the first vowel by a consonant, the first vowel usually has a ________ sound and the e is usually ________. |
e
long silent |
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30. VV:
When there are two consecutive vowels in a word, the first one usually has a ________ vowel sound and the second one is usually ________ unless they are vowel diphthongs. |
long
silent |