Phonics Quiz

How many letters are in the alphabet?

26

How many phonemes are in the english language?

44

Synthetic Phonics

A building block approach to phonics intended to foster the understanding of letter-sound relationships and develop phonics knowledge and skills (part-to-whole)

Syllable

A vowel or a cluster of letters containing a vowel and pronounced as a unit (jaws drops when you say one)

Analytic phonics

An approach to teaching phonics focusing on analyzing known words to find letter sound relationships

Embedded phonics

Associated with holistic, meaning-centered teaching (the why)

What should phonics instruction be like?

Explicit and systematic

Context clue

Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word or phrase

Consonant blends ("blend" has a blend in it)

Joining 2 sounds with minimal change in them; blend, place, screen

Phonogram

Letter patterns that help form word families or rhyming words

Graphemes

Letters in the alphabet

Nonsense words

Made up words that follow standard spelling conventions but do not carry meaning; they are often used to test understanding of phonics; jat, stip, toin

Macron

Orthographic line placed over a long vowel to indicate how it is pronounced

Dipthong

Sounds that consist of a blend of 2 separate vowel sounds; bye, oil, boy, couch

Diagraph ("diagraph" has a diagraph in it)

The combination of 2 or more letters representing 1 sound; phone, sing, teach (if 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking; trait, keep)

Zone of Proximal Development

The difference between what a learned can do without help or what they can do with help; developed by Vygotsky

Alphabetic principle

The idea that letters in the alphabet map to certain phonemes

Onset

The initial consonant, consonant blend, or diagraph preceding the first vowel in a word; "at" = cat, splat

Phonics

The relationship between letters and their sounds and the rules that govern them

Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound

Schwa

Unaccented syllable; "uh" sound; comma, family, button, circus

Rime

Vowels and consonants at the end of syllables that make rhyming words; ad, at

Long vowel

When the vowel says it's name; cake, vote

High frequency words

Words that students should be able to recognize immediately without sounding the word out

When is "Y" used as a vowel or a consonant?

Y is a consonant when it is the first letter of a syllable that has more than one letter like: yes, yam, yell, or yellow ("yuh" sound at the very beginning of a word) Y is a vowel at the end of the word.

Root word (different than a base word)

bio = life aqua = water scribe = to write