Reading
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- Phoneme
- A sound such as (sh, b, t)
- Grapheme
- The picture symbol, the letter
- Morpheme
- The smallest unit of meaning - a word that cannot be made smaller - example is cat
- Bound Morpheme`
- This has to have a morpheme to exist. For example in the word cats, s is the bound morpheme and cat is the morpheme.
- Vowels
- A,E,I,O,U Y (alone in by, friendly) or with another vowel in (say) W (with another vowel like cow or now)
- Long Vowels
- Say their name
- Short Vowels
- Bat, cat, fun
- Schwa
- An unaccented syllable - the "ah" sound in soda or Amanda.
- Vowel Digraph
- When to vowels form a distinct sound - like boat and rain. The speaker's mouth does not have to move to say the digraph.
- Dipthong
- This is a vowel blend. The mouth moves as the the tongue glides from one vowel sound to the next sound in the blend. Examples: house, coin
- Digraph
- Two letters that represent one speech sound. Consonant digraphs are - ch, sh, th, ph. These make a unique sound.
- Consonant Blend
- Two or three consonants together to create a sound (bl, br, sm) (sch, spl, thr)
- Homographs
- Words that look the same but are said differently and mean different things. These can only be gotten from context.
- Onset
- The first consonant sound before a vowel. CAT - C is the onset.
- Rime
- What comes after the onset. In CAT this is AT.
- Syllables
- The way we break words up into their parts.
- Open Syllable
- Ta from TABLE - a long vowel sound
- Closed Syllable
- Bab from Babble - a short vowel sound.