Chapter 3: Phonics Vocabulary and Phonemes

Question 1

Phonics

Answer 1

a method which basic phonetic, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading. Teachers teach phonics, not phonetics.

Question 2

Phonetics

Answer 2

The study of human speech sounds

Question 3

Phoneme

Answer 3

The smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes one word from another
Ex: Chair = /ch/,/a/,/r/

Question 4

Phonemic awareness

Answer 4

The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds

Question 5

Consonant

Answer 5

A sound represented by any of the English alphabet except a,e,i,o,u,w,y. Consonants are sounds made by closing or restricting the breath channel.
-Represent those sounds: Z,B,T,G, and H
-Ex: H a T

Question 6

Consonant Blend

Answer 6

Sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities.
-Ex: st-op and str-ing
- sounds: bl like in blue

Question 7

vowel

Answer 7

A sound represented by a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet
-Ex: smell, milk, pop, gun

Question 8

Dipnthong

Answer 8

A single vowel sound made up of a glide from one vowel sound to another in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllabus
-Ex:bYte, bREak, slOW, Oil

Question 9

Grapheme

Answer 9

A letter or combination of letter that represent a phoneme
-Ex: hEAr, bEAr, rAIn, sURE, Oval, hAIR

Question 10

r-controlled vowel

Answer 10

when a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it affect the vowel sound so that its neither short nor long

Question 11

schwa sound

Answer 11

an unstressed sound commonly occurring is unstressed syllables.
Ex: a,e,i,o,u in the words

Question 12

Disgraph

Answer 12

two letters that stand for a single phoneme.
-Ex: benCH, baCK, baNG, alPHa,QUart, bluSH, baTH, WHale.

Question 13

Onset

Answer 13

The consonant sound(s) of a syllable to come(s) before the vowel sounds
-Ex: rime def

Question 14

Rime

Answer 14

The part of a syllabus that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sound(s) that come(s) after it.
Word. Onset Rime. Phonogram
mat. /m/. /at/. at
Pig. /p/. /ig/. ig
at. - /at/. at
split. /spl/. /it/. it

Question 15

Phonogram

Answer 15

A letter sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and (an) ending consonant grapheme(s), such as -ig in wig,dig,big, or the -ack in back,tack,sack. From phonogram, we can generate word families

Question 16

syllable

Answer 16

A unit of pronunciation consisting of a vowel alone or a vowel with
one or more consonants. There can be only one vowel phoneme (sound) in
each syllable. The syllable is considered to be the basic unit of pronunciation in
English.

Question 17

Closed Syllable

Answer 17

Any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme (sound).
Examples: come /m/; paste /t/; love /v/; ran /n/.

Question 18

Open Syllable

Answer 18

Any syllable that ends with a vowel sound (phoneme).
Examples: see /é /; may /a/; boy /oi/; auto /6/.

Question 19

breve

Answer 19

The orthographic symbol (~) placed over a vowel letter to show it is
pronounced as a short sound (sometimes called an unglided vowel).

Question 20

Circumflex

Answer 20

The orthographic symbol (*) placed above vowel graphemes to
indicate pronunciation.

Question 21

macron

Answer 21

The orthographic symbol (—) placed over a vowel letter to show it is
pronounced as a long sound (sometimes called a glided vowel).

Question 22

umlaut

Answer 22

The orthographic symbol (“) placed above vowel graphemes to
indicate pronunciation.