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Self- Paced Phonics Study Guide

Published on Apr 21, 2016

Use the following slides to study vocabulary terms for Phonics. I use Haiku Deck in my explicit vocabulary instruction.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

phonics

A method using phonetics to teach beginning reading 
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phonetics

The study of human speech sounds 
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phoneme

The smallest sound unit of a language 
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Phonemic Awareness

Ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds 
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consonant

A sound of any letter of the alphabet except a, e, i, o, u, w, y 
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consonant blend

sounds in a syllable with two or more letters blended together but not losing identity 

vowel

the sounds of a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w 

dipthong

a vowel gliding to another vowel creating a single sound  
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r-controlled vowel

a vowel followed by "r" changes the sound, neither long or short 
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schwa sound

an unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables 
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grapheme

letter or letters representing a phoneme 
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digraph

Two letters that stand for a single phoneme 
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onset

consonant sound of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound 
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rime

part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and consonants that come after it 
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phonogram

a letter sequence of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme 
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syllable

a unit of pronunciation consisting of one vowel or a vowel with consonants 

closed syllables

Syllable ending with a consonant phoneme 
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open syllables

any syllable that ends with a vowel sound 
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phoneme blending

ability to identify a word when hearing phonemes or syllables of the word in isolation 
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auditory discrimination

Ability to hear likeness and differences between sounds of spoken words.  
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compound word

A word made up of two or more base words 

decoding

The process of determining the pronunciation of an unknown word 

analytic phonics

using a whole word to identify sounds, as an approach to teaching phonics 

synthetic phonics

learning individual sounds, often in isolation, and then blending into words 

phoneme blending

the ability to pronounce a word that is combined of individual phonemes 

phoneme segmentation

the ability to isolate all the sounds of a word 

hard/soft c and g

soft when followed by the letters e, i, or y (cent, gym)