Phonics Terminology (grapheme, Phoneme)

Long vowel

/a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/

Vowel Short:

/a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/

Vowel

/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/. /u/

Consonant blend

/b/l/, /d/r/, /s/t/, /g/r/

Consonant

/m/, /b/, /t/

Consonant controlled inflected vowels

/or/, /aw/, /al/

Consonant

/sh/, /f/, /th/, /ch/, /k/

CV

A long vowel go, she

C+le how to devid examples:

Can/dle

Dipthong

OI, oy, ou, ow

VCV how to devid examples:

Ro/boat, rob/in ti/dal

Onset

The consonant sounds of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound /br/

Rime

The part of the syllable that includes the vowel and any consonant sound that comes after it /ing/

Consonant Cluster

Two (or three) letters which make two (or three) sounds, bl, dr, st, gr

Consonant Digraph

Two letters making one sound sh,ph,th,ch,ck

Letter patterns(regular words)

VC, VV, VCe, CV

Syllabic Patterns regular words

VCCV, VCV, C+le

Dipthong phoneme

a gliding monosyllabic speech sounds that start with the sound of one vowel and moves to the sound of another. /o/i/,/o/y/ /o/u/ /o/w/ ( toil; boy; ground;how)

Grapheme

a letter or group of letters representing oune sound e.g. m, sh, ch, high, ought, (as in "though')

VV

a long bowel beat, pail, boat

VCe

a long vowel bite, make

VC

a short vowel bat, set

Vowel letter*

a,e,i,o,u, * sometimes w,h,y when preceded by another voewl (show, day,oh)

VCCV how to devid examples:

hap/pen mar/ket, sis/ter

Consonant letter

m,b,t

Consonant controlled vowels

r,I, and w change the sound or, aw, al.

Phoneme

the smallest single identifiable sound, e.g. the letters sh represent just one sound, /sh/ but 'sp' represents two (/s/ and /p/)

Vowel Digraph

two vowels which, together, make one sound ai,ee,ea,oa,ow(show)