Phonics

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accented syllable

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a syllable that recieves greater stress than the other syllables in a word

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allophone

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a variant form of the same phoneme(as the /p/in pinand the /p/ in spin

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blending

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the ability to combine individual phonemes together so as to pronounce a meaningful word

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breve

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a diacritical mark used to indicate the short (unglided) sound of a vowel as the e in red

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closed syllable

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a syllable that ends in a consonant phoneme

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closed syllable

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a syllable that ends in a consonant phoneme

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closed syllable

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a syllable that ends in a consonant phoneme

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compound word

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a word made up of two or more shorter words

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consonant

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one of the two classifications of speech sounds. there are 21 consonant letters and 25 consonant sounds

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consonant blend

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a combination two or more adjacent consonant phonemes pronounced rapidly as the /bl/ in blue the /st/ in still and the /spl/ in splash

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consonant cluster

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two or more consonant letters appearing together in a syllable that, when sounded form a consonant blend. Clusters are taught as units rather than a grapheme

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consonant digraph

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two-letter consonant combinations that represent phonemes not representedby the single letters such as the sh in shoe

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decoding

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translating graphemes into sounds of spoken language so as to pronounce a visually unfamilar word. teachers call this "sounding out"

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digraph

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a grapheme composed of two letters that represent one speech sound (phoneme)

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dipthong

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a single vowel phoneme resembling a "glide" from one sound to another represented by graphemes oi,ou,ow

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grapheme

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the written symbol used to represent the phoneme. it may be composed of one or more letters and the same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme

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graphophonic cues

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the 26 letters(graphemes) 44 sounds (phonemes) and the system relationships among graphemes and phonemes

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key symbol

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44 specific graphemes representing the 44 phonemes of the American English language thus achieving a one to one correspondence between key symbol and phoneme

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key word

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one word selected for each of the 44 phonemes identifying the specific phoneme

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long vowel

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the five vowels represented by a,e,i,o,u that in the context of the teaching of phonics are indicated by a macron and "say their name"

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macron

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a diacritical mark used to indicatethe long (glided) sound of a vowel

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onset

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one or more consonant letters that precede the vowel phoneme in a syllable

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open syllable

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a syllable that ends in a vowel phoneme (play,blue)

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phoneme

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the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another. This program identifies 44 phonemes

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phoneme addition

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attaching one or more phonemes to a word or word part

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phoneme deletion

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removing one or more phonemes from a word or word part

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phoneme substitution

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deleting one or more phonemes from a word or word part then replacing them with one more different phonemes

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phonics

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the study of the relationships of the letter and letter combinations in written words to the sounds they represent in soken words

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phonograph

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another term for the rime in a syllable

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phonemic awareness

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the ability to conceptualize speech as a sequence of phonemes combined with the ability to consciously manipulate the phonemes of the english language

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rime

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the vowel and consonant letters that follows it in a syllable there is only 1 vowel in a rime the a in at,the o in oat

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schwa

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a vowel phoneme in an unaccented syllable that represents a soft "uh" and is indicated by the key symbol

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segmentation

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the process of separating the spoken words or syllables into their indiviual phonemes.

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semantic cues

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the general meaning of a passage that gives the reader useful information for word identification

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short vowel

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the vowel letters a, e, i, o, u that in the context of the teaching of phonics are indicated with a breve

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silent letter

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a name given to a letter that appears in written word but is not heard in spoken word

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slash marks

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slanting lines // enclosing a grapheme indicating that the reference is to its sound not to the letters

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syllable

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the unit of pronunciation the english syllable has only 1 vowel phoneme there are as many syllables in a word as there are vowel phonemes there is only 1 vowel phoneme in a syllable

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syntactic cues

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information from the order of words in phrases, clauses, and sentences that also gives the reader useful information for the identification of visually unfamillar words

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voiced th

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the intial phoneme heard in the key word that in which vocal cords vibrate during the production of the phoneme

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voiceless th

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the intial phoneme heard in the key word thumb in which the vocal cords do not vibrate during the production of the phoneme

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vowel digraph

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a two letter vowel grapheme that represents 1 sound

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vowel pair

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two adjacent vowel letters that represent a phoneme associated with one of the letters such as the a in rainthat is represented by the ai grapheme

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vowels

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one of the two classifications of speech sounds th vowels are a,e,i,o,u and somtimes y and w

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word family

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words with the same rimeand rhyming sound cat, fat.hat