EDRD exam 1 Question and answers
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1. Rime - correct answer ✔a linguistic term for the part of a syllable that includes the vowel and what
follows it ; also known as word families or phonograms
2. Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of our
language
3. Diphthong - correct answer ✔two vowels combined to form a new vowel sound that is neither short
nor long (e.g. oi, ou)
4. Orthography - correct answer ✔A writing system for a language
5. Consonant Blend - correct answer ✔Combination of two to three consonants in which you hear
each phoneme
6. Phoneme - correct answer ✔The smallest unit of speech or sound in a language.
7. Grapheme - correct answer ✔A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in English,
it may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh...a written representation of a
phoneme
8. Phonological Awareness - correct answer ✔The metalinguistic awareness of all levels of the speech
sound system, including word boundaries, rhyme, stress patterns, syllables, onset-rime units, and
phonemes.
9. Onset - correct answer ✔the part of a syllable before the vowel
, 10. Vowel Digraph - correct answer ✔A pair of vowels that create a long vowel sound, sometimes also
called a "vowel combination", "vowel pair", or "vowel team".
11. Alphabetic Principle - correct answer ✔the conscious awareness that words are made up of
segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography
12. Consonant Digraph - correct answer ✔A consonant pair that creates one new phoneme
• G and C can make hard and soft sounds: /j/ or /s/ (what vowels follow the soft vs. hard sounds) -
correct answer ✔...
G makes the soft sound when followed by what vowel? - correct answer ✔Think: giraffe, gum, goat,
game, gem
C makes the soft sound when followed by what vowel? - correct answer ✔Think: cat, center, coral,
cup, circle
• How many sounds can the letter y make? List a few examples of words when y makes various sounds
and indicate which vowel they are making:
For example: FLY (long i) - correct answer ✔...
• Be able to count phonemes and graphemes in words. Remember that the number of graphemes and
phonemes is always the same. Phonemes are the SOUND and graphemes are the written LETTER.
Sounds can be written by groups of letters (e.g. rIGHt has three phonemes and three graphemes) -
correct answer ✔Freak Play
Street Flight
Strip Jacket
Icky Plop
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1. Rime - correct answer ✔a linguistic term for the part of a syllable that includes the vowel and what
follows it ; also known as word families or phonograms
2. Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of our
language
3. Diphthong - correct answer ✔two vowels combined to form a new vowel sound that is neither short
nor long (e.g. oi, ou)
4. Orthography - correct answer ✔A writing system for a language
5. Consonant Blend - correct answer ✔Combination of two to three consonants in which you hear
each phoneme
6. Phoneme - correct answer ✔The smallest unit of speech or sound in a language.
7. Grapheme - correct answer ✔A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in English,
it may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh...a written representation of a
phoneme
8. Phonological Awareness - correct answer ✔The metalinguistic awareness of all levels of the speech
sound system, including word boundaries, rhyme, stress patterns, syllables, onset-rime units, and
phonemes.
9. Onset - correct answer ✔the part of a syllable before the vowel
, 10. Vowel Digraph - correct answer ✔A pair of vowels that create a long vowel sound, sometimes also
called a "vowel combination", "vowel pair", or "vowel team".
11. Alphabetic Principle - correct answer ✔the conscious awareness that words are made up of
segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography
12. Consonant Digraph - correct answer ✔A consonant pair that creates one new phoneme
• G and C can make hard and soft sounds: /j/ or /s/ (what vowels follow the soft vs. hard sounds) -
correct answer ✔...
G makes the soft sound when followed by what vowel? - correct answer ✔Think: giraffe, gum, goat,
game, gem
C makes the soft sound when followed by what vowel? - correct answer ✔Think: cat, center, coral,
cup, circle
• How many sounds can the letter y make? List a few examples of words when y makes various sounds
and indicate which vowel they are making:
For example: FLY (long i) - correct answer ✔...
• Be able to count phonemes and graphemes in words. Remember that the number of graphemes and
phonemes is always the same. Phonemes are the SOUND and graphemes are the written LETTER.
Sounds can be written by groups of letters (e.g. rIGHt has three phonemes and three graphemes) -
correct answer ✔Freak Play
Street Flight
Strip Jacket
Icky Plop
