Phonics Exam Flashcards
Phonics
The relationships between the sounds of a language in the letters or letter combinations used to represent those sounds.
Orthography
The spelling system of a language
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound in a word
shown in slashes
Graphemes
Letters - written symbols that represent phonemes
Phonological awareness
Awareness of units of speech such as words,symbols, and phonemes
Phonemic awareness
The awareness of phonemes. It’s the ability to distinguish sounds in words
Phoneme segmentation
Splitting a spoken word into each constituent phonemes in the order in which they are heard in the word.
This is a skill required for a child to fully understand phonetic spelling.
Phoneme blending
Taking even funny names and combining them to make a word,
this is employed when decoding words
the opposite of segmentation;
Decode
To take written words and translate them into phonemes that make up words.
Paper to voice
Encode
Translating words from voices to paper.
When children take words from their mind and use phonics to sound out the phonemes in the word in order to write it down
Consonants
Phonemes where the flow of air is cut off partially or completely.
They can be voiced or unvoiced
Voiced
The vocal cords vibrate in creating the sound
Unvoiced
The vocal cords do not vibrate in creating a sound
Vowels
Phonemes where air flows through the mouth unobstructed
Consonant digraph
Two consonants together that represent one phoneme.
Consonant blend
A sequence of two or three concepts, each of which is heard.