phonics midterm

breve

short vowel

macron

long vowel sounds

schwa

lazy vowel sound, uh

phoneme

smallest sound in spoken language

grapheme

a written letter or group of letters that represent a phoneme

onset

the part of the syllable that comes before the vowel

rime

the vowel and everything after it

blend

two consonants keeping their original sounds

consonant digraphs

two consonant letters that combine to one sound (you see two, you hear one stomp stomp)

vowel digraphs

two vowels paired together that make one sound (they’re a team, they’re a group, they’re a posse, they’re a gang! they go together and they say one thang)

diphthong

two vowels produce a gliding sound- both vowels sound

circumflex

used for r-controlled words

alphabetic principle

letters and letter patterns represent the sounds in spoken language (connects phonemes to graphemes)

decoding

the ability to convert a word from print to speech

developmental sequence for phonological awareness

whole word, syllable, onset-rime, phonemes

phonological awareness is…

ability to recognize and manipulate all sounds in spoken language (from larger to smaller- includes phonemic awareness)

phonemic awareness

ability to recognize and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language

continuous sounds

a, e, f, i, l, m, n, o, q (oddity), r, s, u, v, w, x (oddity), y, z

stop sounds

b, c, d, g, h, j, k, p, t