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Graded
Rhyming
Ans: One of the first phonological awareness skills to develop
Blending & segmenting at syllable level
Ans: Develops at 3-4 years
Segmenting phonemes
Ans: Develops at 4-5 years
Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC
words
Ans: Develops in kindergarten
Segmenting words with consonant blends
Ans: Develops in first grade
Receptive oral language
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Ans: Listening
Expressive oral language
Ans: Speaking
Receptive written language
Ans: Reading
Expressive written language
Ans: Writing
__ letters representing __ phonemes
Ans: 26, 44
5 vowel letters, __ vowel sounds
Ans: 15
Long vowels
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Ans: Tense Vowels. (Beet, bait, boat, boot, bite, boy, bout) (a,
e, i, o, u, oy, ou, oo)
Short vowels
Ans: Lax vowels - pat, pet, pit, pot, put, putt (a, e, i ,o, u, oo)
Fricatives
Ans: produced by a constant flow of air through the vocal tract
(f and v)
Affricates
Ans: ch/j
Glides
Ans: W, y
Liquids
Ans: l, r
Alphabetic principle
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