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Phonological Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| phonemic awareness | individual sounds or phonemes as objects that can be analyzed and manipulated |
| phonological awareness | individual words and syllables as objects that can be analyzed and manipulated |
| phonics | knowledge of the relationships between letters and sounds; and the ability to put together, or blend, sounds represented by letters |
| phoneme | the smallest single unit of sound in a language that distinguishes one morpheme(meaning unit) from another |
| grapheme | a written or printed representation of a phoneme |
| morpheme | the smallest unit of meaning in a language |
| affix | a prefix or a suffix |
| prefix | an affix added to the beginning of root words to change their meanings |
| long vowels | identified vowel sounds identical to the vowel names of the traditional vowels: a, e, i, o, and u |
| short vowels | unidentified vowel sounds (short) a apple, e egg |
| consonants | b, d, c, p, t, r |
| consonant blend | two or three consecutive consonant letters, each representing a separate phoneme that is blended together; bl, pl, tr, st |
| onset patterns | initial consonant letters found at the beginning of syllables and words such as b, c, d, f, g, sn, st, or str |
| rime patterns | a limited set of the most common endings to syllables and words such as -ake, -ack, -ail, or -ame |
| structural analysis | a word analysis strategy; recognizing syllable units within words |
| suffix | an affix joined at the end of a root (base) words to change its meaning; (s, ed, ing) |
| compound word | a word made by putting two or more words together |
| diphthong | a type of vowel cluster that is sometimes called a vowel blend, where two vowel letters appear together and represent a blending of the sounds associated with each letter; aw in saw, au in cause, oi in oil, oy in toy |
| r-controlled vowel | neither long nor short but have a sound determined largely by the following r |
| silent vowel | a vowel that makes no sound; used to control the of the neighboring consonant; e in take, i in rain |
| schwa | vowel sound in an unaccepted syllable that can be any vowel |
| vowel diphthong | aw in saw, au in cause, oi in oil, oy in toy, ow in how, ou in out |
| consonant digraphs | sh, ch, th, wh, ph, gh, ng |
| vowel digraphs | a in rain, oa in boat, ea in meat, ow in show |
| silent consonants | t in castle, gh in tight, k in know |
| closed syllables | a syllable ending with a consonant letter, usually making the vowel sound long |
| open syllables | a syllable ending with a vowel letter, usually making the vowel sound long |
| graphophonic | the relationship between sounds in our language and its written letters or spelling patterns |
| consonant cluster | two or three consonant letters that often appear together; there are two types: digraphs and blends |