Word Recognition -Phonics Flashcards
Phonological awareness
is an overarching skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language, including parts of words, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
Phonemic awareness
understanding the individual sounds (or phonemes) in words. For example, students who have phonemic awareness can separate the sounds in the word cat into three distinct phonemes: /k/, /æ/, and /t/.
Oral Vocabulary
words that children can understand or use while speaking and listening.
Oral Language
System through which we use spoken words to express knowledge, ideas, and feelings.
Print awareness
(Concepts of Print)
the understanding that print carries meaning, that books contain letters and words. Print awareness also includes an understanding of what books are used for and how a book “works” — how to turn pages, how to find the top and bottom of a page, and how to identify the title and the front and back covers.
Phonemes
Phonemes are the individual sounds in words.
Blending
the ability to string together the sounds that each letter stands for in a word. For example, when students see the word black, they blend the /bl/, the /a/ sound and the ending /k/ sound.
Segmenting
is breaking a word apart. This can be done by breaking compound words into two parts, segmenting by onset and rime, segmenting by syllables, or breaking the word into individual phonemes.
Phoneme isolation
the ability to identify where a sound appears in a word, or to identify what isolated sound appears in a given position in a word.
Phoneme addition
Phoneme addition involves adding phonemes to a given word to produce a new word. For instance, starting with the word we and adding the phoneme /k/ to the end turns it into week.
Substituting
is replacing one phoneme with another in a word. For example, students say the word play, and the teacher asks them to change the first sound of play with /st/.
Deleting
is when students take words apart, remove one sound, and pronounce the word without the removed sound. For example, using the word mice, a teacher may ask students to delete the initial /m/ sound, resulting in the word ice.
Syllables
Syllables are units of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word. For example, there are two syllables in water (wa-ter) and three in elephant (el- e-phant).
Monosyllable
a word consisting of only one syllable.
Ex:cup
multisyllable
a word of many syllables.
open syllable
ends with a vowel sound that is spelled with a single vowel letter (a, e, i, o, or u). Examples include me, e/qual, pro/gram, mu/sic.
closed syllable
has a short vowel ending in a consonant. Examples include hat, dish, bas/ket.
Onsets
are the beginning consonant and consonant cluster. For example, the onset for the word tack is /t/. The onset for the word track is /tr/.
Rimes
are the vowel and consonants that follow the onset. For example, in the word tack and track, the rime is -ack.
rhyming
of a word, syllable, or line) having or ending with an identical or corresponding sound to another.
“pick a word such as “pack,” and then think of several rhyming words, such as “stack” or “sack””
Alliteration
When words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.
Ex:Paul picked purple pickles in pink pants.
R-controlled Also known as the “bossy r”.
A syllable with one or two vowels followed by the letter r
The vowel is not long or short. The r influences or controls the vowel sound.
Ex:car,far
L-controlled vowel
L-controlled vowel describes a syllable in which the vowel is followed by an L. The L distorts the sound of the vowel, and the vowel is subsequently neither long nor short.
Ex: Ball,cold,Bell, pencil,
Digraphs
Digraphs are a two-letter (di) combinations that create one phoneme.
Ex. th, sh, ch, wh, ph, ng (sing)
gh (cough)
Trigraphs
Trigraphs are three-letter (tri) combinations that create one phoneme.
Ex: -tch,-dge
Consonant blends
Consonant blends include two or three graphemes, and the consonant sounds are separate and identifiable.
Ex: s-c-r (scrape)