Phonics Basics Flashcards
Rapid, accurate decoding without conscious effort (leads to fluency)
Automaticity
Smallest unit of meaning in a language
Morpheme
Children are taught how to break up words into individual sounds, and then blend all the way through the word. (part to whole)
Synthetic/Explicit Phonics
Involves learning letter-sound relationships in connection with larger language units (whole to part)
Analytic/Implicit Phonics
A syllable that ends in a vowel sound
Open Syllable
The elongated vowel sound that is the same as the name of the vowel
Long vowel
Use letter—sound relationships to translate a word from a series of symbols to a unit of meaning
Decoding
Ability to read text with speed and accuracy
Fluency
A brief duration sound represented by a vowel letter
Short vowel
Sounds represented by the letters b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t,v,w, and z
Consonants
The part of a word that comes before the first vowel
Onset
The process of breaking words into their component phonetic elements
Phoneme Segmentation
A syllable that ends in a consonant
Closed syllable
A letter or cluster of letters representing a single sound or phoneme
Grapheme
The written spelling system of any language
Orthography
