Decoding Correct Answer: Process of converting printed words into their spoken
forms by using knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and word structure.
Decodable Texts Correct Answer: Coherent texts in which most of the words are
comprised of an accumulating sequence of letter-sound correspondences that
students have learned and are learning.
Graphophonemic Knowledge Correct Answer: Knowledge of letters and letter
combinations and the sounds that represent them.
Instructional Level Correct Answer: Reading level in which no more than 1 in 10
words is difficult for the reader (with good comprehension)
Irregular Words Correct Answer: Words in which some or all of the letters do not
represent thier most common sounds.
Morphemes Correct Answer: Smallest meaningful units of language.
Orthography Correct Answer: Writing system of language.
Phonics Correct Answer: The study and use of symbol-sound (grapheme-
phoneme) relationships to help students identify words.
Rime Correct Answer: The part of a syllable that includes the vowel and what
follows it.
Sight Words Correct Answer: Words that are recognized immediately.
Sounding Out Correct Answer: Process of saying each sound that represents a
letter(s) in a word and blending the sounds together to read the word.
, Syllable Correct Answer: Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel.
Letter Combinations Correct Answer: Groups of consecutive letters that represent
a particular sound or sound in words.
Open Syllable Correct Answer: Example: Rolo
Divide by Syllables, ends in vowel, no consonant closing.
Closed Syllable Correct Answer: Example: Skittles / Twix
Vowel closed in, Vowels make the short sound.
Consonant - LE Correct Answer: Examples: Skittles
Dipthong Correct Answer: Example: Mounds
Glide Sounds "Wearing a thong say ow & oi!"
ou, oi, oy, ow
R-Controlled Correct Answer: Example: York
Vowel comes before an R "bossy R' changes the sound of the vowel.
CVC(e) Correct Answer: Example: Mike & Ike
"silent e" or "magic e"
Vowels make the long sound.
Vowel Pair Correct Answer: Example: Heath
Two vowels together that make one sound.
"Two vowels go walking usually the first one does the talking"
Digraph Correct Answer: Example: Heath
Individual sounds die off but make a new sound.
ph, th, sh, wh , ch, tch.
Consonant Blend Correct Answer: The combined sounds of two or three
consonants.
forms by using knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and word structure.
Decodable Texts Correct Answer: Coherent texts in which most of the words are
comprised of an accumulating sequence of letter-sound correspondences that
students have learned and are learning.
Graphophonemic Knowledge Correct Answer: Knowledge of letters and letter
combinations and the sounds that represent them.
Instructional Level Correct Answer: Reading level in which no more than 1 in 10
words is difficult for the reader (with good comprehension)
Irregular Words Correct Answer: Words in which some or all of the letters do not
represent thier most common sounds.
Morphemes Correct Answer: Smallest meaningful units of language.
Orthography Correct Answer: Writing system of language.
Phonics Correct Answer: The study and use of symbol-sound (grapheme-
phoneme) relationships to help students identify words.
Rime Correct Answer: The part of a syllable that includes the vowel and what
follows it.
Sight Words Correct Answer: Words that are recognized immediately.
Sounding Out Correct Answer: Process of saying each sound that represents a
letter(s) in a word and blending the sounds together to read the word.
, Syllable Correct Answer: Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel.
Letter Combinations Correct Answer: Groups of consecutive letters that represent
a particular sound or sound in words.
Open Syllable Correct Answer: Example: Rolo
Divide by Syllables, ends in vowel, no consonant closing.
Closed Syllable Correct Answer: Example: Skittles / Twix
Vowel closed in, Vowels make the short sound.
Consonant - LE Correct Answer: Examples: Skittles
Dipthong Correct Answer: Example: Mounds
Glide Sounds "Wearing a thong say ow & oi!"
ou, oi, oy, ow
R-Controlled Correct Answer: Example: York
Vowel comes before an R "bossy R' changes the sound of the vowel.
CVC(e) Correct Answer: Example: Mike & Ike
"silent e" or "magic e"
Vowels make the long sound.
Vowel Pair Correct Answer: Example: Heath
Two vowels together that make one sound.
"Two vowels go walking usually the first one does the talking"
Digraph Correct Answer: Example: Heath
Individual sounds die off but make a new sound.
ph, th, sh, wh , ch, tch.
Consonant Blend Correct Answer: The combined sounds of two or three
consonants.
