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Flashcards by Christina Shook, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Christina Shook
over 5 years ago
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| Phonics | a method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading. |
| Phonetics | the study of human speech sounds |
| Phoneme | the smallest sound unit of language that distinguishes one word from another |
| phonemic awareness | the ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds. Being able to distinguish or differentiate between the sounds that make up a word and apply this knowledge as it relates to the written word form of a word is an essential skill in beginning reading |
| consonant | a sound represented by any letter of the English alphabet except a,e,i,o,u,w,y. (sounds made by closing or restricting the breath canal) |
| consonant blend | sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities |
| vowel | a sound represented by a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet (sounds made without closing or restricting the breath canal) |
| dipthong | a single vowel sound made up of a glide from one vowel sound to another in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable |
| r-controlled vowel | when a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it affects the vowel sound so that it is neither short not long |
| schwa sound | an unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables (represented by // and closely resembles short sound for u |
| grapheme | a letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme (sound) |
| digraph | two letters that stand for a single phoneme (sound) |
| onset | the consonant sound(s) of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound |
| rime | the part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sounds that some after it |
| phonogram |
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