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
Two or more consonant letters that often appear together in words and represent sounds that are smoothly joined, although each of the sounds can be heard
Blend
The part of the word left after the onset is removed
Rime
Sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another- /oy/ and /ow/
Diphthong
A letter or group of letters added to the beginning or ending of a base or root word to change its meaning or function (a prefix or suffix)
Affixes
Two letters that appear together and represent a single sound -/sh/, /ch/, /oo/ and /ai/
Digraphs
