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Analytic phonics
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A whole-to-part phonics approach that emphasizes starting with whole words and identifying individual sounds as parts of those words. AKA: Implicit phonics
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Auditory discrimination
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The ability to hear the similarities and differences betweeen sounds in spoken words
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Closed Syllable
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Any syllable ending with a consonant
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Compound word
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A word made up of two or more base words
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Consonant blend
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When two sounds in a syllable (represented by two or more letters) are blended together without losing their identity. (bl, br, dr, pl, gr)
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Decoding
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The process of determining the pronunciation of an unknown word.
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Digraph
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Two letters that stand for a single sound (phoneme)
(oo, oa, ee, th, sh, ng, ch) |
Diphthong
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A single vowel sound made up of a blend of two vowel sounds and pronounced in one syllable (ew, ow, oy). Two vowels that keep their sound identity
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Grapheme
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A letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme. /f/ or /b/ or /oo/
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Onset
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The consonant sound(s) of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound. Starting phoneme /m/ at
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Open syllable
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Any syllable ending with a vowel phoneme
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Phoneme Blending
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The process of recognizing isolated speech sounds and the ability to pronounce the word for which they stand.
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Phoneme segmentation
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Isolating all the sounds in a word.
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Phoneme
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The smallest sound unit in a word
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Phonemic awareness
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The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of sounds. /b/ /a/ /t/
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