Phonics Quiz

Stop sounds

consonant sounds in which the airflow is completely

stopped in the mouth and then released suddenly.

Continuous sounds

consonant sounds that can be stretched or held

without changing the sound because the airflow is not completely

blocked.

Phonics

a method of instruction that teaches students the systematic relationship between letters and letter combinations (graphemes) in written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken language, and how to use the relationships to read and spell words

Decoding

Using letter–sound knowledge to blend sounds together to read unfamiliar words (map → /m/ /a/ /p/). Nonsense word reading useful way to access decoding because students must rely on their knowledge of sound/spelling correspondences to pronounce a word.

Alphabetic Principle

the understanding that written letters represent spoken sounds and that these sounds go together to make words

Regular Words

Fully decodable words that follow common phonics patterns (map, flag). Did you know only 50% of one-syllable words are regular words and follow common phonics patterns?

Phonics Instruction

provides sufficient practice in reading words in decodable texts. The purpose of decodable text is to practice or apply phonics skills that have been taught.

What is NOT the dominant component of a comprehensive reading program.

Phonics Instruction

What is considered the heart and soul of phonics instruction

Blending

What is not if sound/spellings are taught as students encounter new words in print

Systematic

Just because a program has a scope and sequence does not mean it is what?

Systematic

The hallmark of what is the teacher directly explains and models what students should do.

Explict Phonics Instruction

First Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Develop Phonemic Awareness

Second Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Introduce Sounding/Spelling

Third Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Blend Words

Fourth Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Build Automatic Word Recognition

Fifth Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Apply to Decodable Texts

Sixth Step of the Sequence of an Explicit Phonics Lesson

Word Work for Encoding and Decoding

Synthetic Phonics

A method of teaching reading in which students learn individual letter-sound correspondences (phonemes and graphemes) and then blend those sounds together to read words.

Analogy Phonics

A method in which students use known word patterns to read unfamiliar words. They identify a familiar chunk or rime and apply it to a new word.

Analytic Phonics

A method that teaches students to analyze whole words to discover letter-sound relationships rather than teaching sounds in isolation first.

Word Sorting

a method for calling attention to word elements

Word Building

a method that supports decoding and word recognition by giving students opportunities to experience and discriminate the effects on a word of changing one letter

Elkonin Boxes

a method where the grapheme for each sound is moved into a box

Dictation

a method that gives students an opportunity to practice writing words with previously taught sound/spellings

Phonics Continuum

a structured, systematic scope and sequence used to teach children the relationships between letters and sounds.

Analytic approach to phonics instruction

Teaching the sounds of letters in already known words.

Consonant Digraph

Two consonants that represent one speech sound. (Examples: ch, sh, th)

diphthong

Vowel sounds that are so closely blended that they can be treated as single vowel units for the purpose of word identification

Grapheme

the written or printed representation of a phoneme

onset

anything before the vowel

phoneme

the smallest unit of sound

phonics

the association of speech sounds with printed symbols

Phonemic Awareness

an understanding that speech consists of a series of small sound or phonemes

Rime

The vowel and everything that follows it

synthetic approach to phonics instruction

sounds taught first then blended

vowel digraph

two adjacent vowel letters that represent a single speech sound.

Macron

•long vowel sound

Breve

•Short vowel sound