Phonics vocabulary

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What is a Grapheme?

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The written letter(s) that represent a sound

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What is Blending?

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Putting individual sounds together to say a word

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What is Segmenting?

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Breaking a word into individual sounds

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What is a Consonant Blend?

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Two or more consonants together where each sound is heard

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What is a Syllable?

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A unit of pronunciation with one vowel sound

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What is Decoding?

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Using letter-sound knowledge to read a word

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What is Encoding?

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Using letter-sound knowledge to spell a word

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What is a CVC Word?

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A word made of consonant-vowel-consonant sounds, like "cat"

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What is Decodable Text?

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Reading material made of words that follow phonics rules students know