Reading Vocabulary

Phoneme is the smallest unit of a spoken language /c/ /a/ /t/ says cat

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words)  that can be manipulated (blending and segmenting)

•  can be done in the dark 
• sounds are manipulated

The Phonics is letter sound correspondence 

• Synthetic Phonics is a bottom up  or part to whole approach--learning the individual sounds and then putting them together 

• Analytic Phonics  is whole to part approach--starting with words one notices and identifies generalizations or similarities in words or similar patterns in different words

Consonant Blend is 2 or more letters that make more than one sound (st, tr, fl, ft)

Digraph 2 or more letters that make one sound (th, sh, ch, ee, oa)

Syllable is a unit of sound with one vowel sound. The number of syllables in a word is determined by the number of vowel sounds

SYLLABLE DIVISION 

• Closed Syllable--cvc--generally has a short vowel sound such as cat, bit, cut
• Open Syllable--cv or v--has one vowel at the end or beginning of the syllable and generally says the vowel name such as I, me, open 

C = closed syllable as in "cat" (C)
L = consonant -le syllable as in "ta/ble" (L)
O = open syllable as in "we" (O)
V = vowel team syllable as in "read" (V)
E = vowel-consonant-e syllable as in "cake" (V_E)
R = r-controlled syllable as in "barn" and "bird" (R)

• Vowel Consonant--when a vowel is followed by one consonant and then the letter e, the vowel is usually long an the e is silent.
• vc/cv: dentist happen
•  vc/ccv: entrap distress 
• v/cv: idea pilot tripod vc/v olive tavern epic
• v/v: cameo meteor 
• /cle muzzle stable puddle idle

Double word endings when adding suffixes

• when the final syllable in a word has a short vowel and the suffix begins with a vowel such as stop to stopping, commit to committed

 Morpheme is the smallest meaningful part of a word. It can be a word itself or it can be part of a word. Examples are I, cup, ly, bi. The word "dogs" has 2 morphemes as dog is one and s is another while avocado has 4 syllables but one morpheme 

 

1227 × 1600 - primaryinspired.blogspot.com

400 × 400 - seasoningtheschwa.wordpress.com

Schwa is the neutral vowel sound in the unaccented or unstressed syllable in words. It generally makes the sound of /u/ or in as in open, pupil and remote.