Teaching Reading - Vocabulary Flashcards
Phonemic Awareness
the ability to hear, isolate, and manipulate individual speech sounds.
Phoneme
a single unit of sound
Phonics
a method in which basic phonetics is used to teach beginning reading
Phonetics
The scientific study of human speech sounds
consonant
sounds represented by any letter of the english alphabet except for a, e, i, o, and u
consonant blend
sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their identity
vowel
sounds represented by the age,i,o,u, and sometimes y and w
diphthong
a single vowel sound made up of a blend of two vowel sounds in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable
r controlled vowel
when a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it makes the vowel sound neither long nor short.
schwa sound
an unstressed vowel sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables
grapheme
a letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme
digraph
two letters that stand for a single phoneme
onset
the consonant sound of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound
rime
the part of a syllable that included the vowel sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables
phonogram
a letter sequence composed of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme that represents a sound
