Phonics Vocab Terms Crossword Puzzle

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• phonetics : the study of human speech sounds.
• open syllables : a syllable that ends with a vowel phoneme sound (tongue continues).
• syllable : the unit of pronunciation consisting of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants.
• encoding : the construction of words.
• closed syllables : a syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme sound (tongue stops).
• breve : the orthographic symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it's pronounced as a short sound.
• dip thong : a single vowel sound that glides into another sound; and is pronounced as one syllable (ow-ou; oy-oi).
• blend : two or more letters that are blended together without losing their identities, they can be separated (two or more letters).
• grapheme : a letter or combination of letters that represent a phoneme sound.
• consonant : a sounds represented by an letter of the english alphabet except (a,e,i,o,u,w,y).
• phoneme : the smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes word from word
• vowel : a sound represented by a,e,i,o,u, and sometimes w and y in the english alphabet.
• macron : the orthographic symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it's pronounced as a long sound.
• orthography : the conventional spelling system of a language.
• decoding : the reading and understanding of words.
• phonics : the method in which basic phonetics is used to teach the beginning of reading.
• diagraph : two letters that stand for a simple phoneme sounds, and can't be separated (two consonants).
• phonogram : a letter sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and (an) ending consonant grapheme(s).