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Phonemes
a sound; it's represented in print with slashes
Graphemes
a written representation of a sound using one or more letters
Graphophonetic
a phonics term that refers to sound-symbol representation
Phonetic Awareness
the ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally.
Phonics
predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes
Phonology
the sound system of language
Orthography
the spelling system
Etymology
the study of word origins and how the meaning and spelling ofwords have evolved through
history.
alphabetic principle
the assumption underlying alphabetical language systems that each sound has a
corresponding graphic representation (letter)
Consonant
a speech sound characterized by friction or stoppage of the airflow as it passes through the
vocal tract; any letter except a e i o u
Consonant Blends
occur when two or three consonants appear next to each other in words and their individual
sounds are blended together
Consonant Digraphs
two adjacent consonants that represent a sound not represented by either consonant alone
vowels
a voiced speech sound made without friction or stoppage of the airflow as it passes through the
voice tract; the letters a e i o u and y
Short Vowels
marked with a symbol called a breve
Long Vowels
pronounced the same as their letter names; marked with a macron
Dipthong
a sound produced when the tongue glides from one sound to the other; it is represented by two
vowels
Schwa
the neutral vowel sound in an unaccented syllable of words with two or more syllables
Onset
the part of a syllable ending in a vowel sound
rime
the part of a syllable that begins with the vowel
Phonograms
a rime used for word-family decoding and spelling activities