Phonics

Question 1

phonics

Answer 1

an instructional approach to teach children how to match sounds to letters in order to read and write words

Question 2

short vowel sound

Answer 2

the vowel sounds in the words cat, bed, pig, pot, and up

Question 3

long vowel sound

Answer 3

the sound a vowel makes when it “says its name” like in the words rain, seen, chime, smoke and blue

Question 4

consonant blend

Answer 4

two or three consonants that go together, but you can still hear both original sounds

Question 5

consonant digraph

Answer 5

two consonants that go together to make a new sound (ch, th, wh, sh, ph)

Question 6

silent e rule

Answer 6

when you have one vowel letter, then one consonant letter, and then an e, the e is silent and the vowel is long.

Question 7

open syllable

Answer 7

when a syllable ends with a single vowel letter, the vowel will be long

Question 8

closed syllable

Answer 8

when a syllable ends with a single vowel letter and then a single consonant, the vowel will be short

Question 9

long vowel team

Answer 9

when there are two vowels together, the first vowel is long (ex. ai, ea, oa)

Question 10

variant vowel teams

Answer 10

when there are two vowels together that make a new sound (oo, au, aw)

Question 11

dipthongs

Answer 11

when two vowels are together and make a sound that slides from one vowel sound to another one (oi, oy, ou, ow like cow)

Question 12

r-controlled vowels

Answer 12

a vowel followed by an r makes a different sound (ar, ir, er, ur, or)