Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is Phonemic Awareness?
knowledge that speech is made of individual sounds
What is Phonics?
recognition and combination of phonemes and graphemes
What is Spelling?
segmenting spoken words into sounds
What are strategies for Phonemic Awareness?
- identifying sounds
- categorizing sounds in words
- substituting sounds
- blending sounds
- segmenting sounds
What do you need a planned curriculum?
to make it purposeful and integrated with meaningful situations
What are the types phonemes?
consonants and vowels
What are the types of consonants?
blends and digraphs
What is a consonant blend?
2-3 letters whose sounds blend together
What is a consonant digraph?
letter combinations that represent a single sound
What are the types of vowels? Explain.
- short: /a/ cat
- long: /a/ make
- digraphs: n/ai/l
- diphthongs: 2 letters represent a glide from one sound to another
- r-controlled: r influences pronunciation
- schwa: vowels that are unaccented, uh sound
What are Phonograms?
one-syllable words and syllables in longer words that are divided into two parts: onsets and rimes
What is an Onset?
the beginning consonant
What is a Rime?
the vowel and consonants that follow in a word
Why is phonics over after third grade?
because they should be on grade level for reading
