Phonics Flashcards
A method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading.
Phonics
The study of human speech sounds
Phonetics
The smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes on word form another.
Phoneme
The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds
Phonemic awareness
a sound represented by any letter of the English alphabet except a, e, i, o, u, w, y.
consonant
Sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities.
consonant blend
a sound represented by a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet.
vowel
a single vowel sound made up of a glide from one vowel to another in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable.
diphthong
when a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it affects the vowel sound so that is is neither short nor long.
r-controlled vowel
an unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables
schwa sound
a letter or combinations of letters that represents a phoneme
grapheme
two letters that stand for a single phoneme
digraph
the consonant sound(s) of a syllable that come(s) before the vowel sound.
onset
The part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sound(s) that come(s) after it.
rime
a letter sequence comprised of vowel grapheme and (an) ending consonant grapheme(s),
phonogram
