STR Vocab Practice

What is Phonology

• The study of speech sounds and how sounds can change depending on context or placement in syllables, words, and sentences.

• The relationship between letters and sounds.

• The process of spelling words based on their sounds.

• The ability to take apart the sounds in words and blend sounds together to create meaning.

What is a Phoneme?

• A single unit of sound

• The relationship between letters and sounds

• The study of speech sounds and how sounds can change depending on context or placement in syllables, words, and sentences

• A single unit that holds meaning (ex: jumping has two morphemes, jump and -ing)

What are Phonics?

• The relationship between letters and sounds

• A single unit of sound

• The process of spelling words based on their sounds (phonemes)

• The alphabetic letters that represent sounds

What are Graphemes?

• The alphabetic letters that represent sounds

• Greeks stem that means sound

• A single unit of sound

• The ability to take apart the sounds (Phonemes) and words and blend sounds together to create meaning

What is a Morpheme?

• A single unit that holds meaning (example: jumping has two morphemes, "jump" and "ing")

• Preffixes, Suffixes, base, and root words

• The defining feature of expressive reading, which comprises all of the variables of timing, phrasing, emphasis, and intonation

• A single unit of sound

What is Morphology?

• Prefixes, Suffixes, Base, and root words

• The study of speech sounds and how sounds can change depending on context or placements in syllables, words, and sentences

• The defining feature of expressive reading, which comprises all of the variables of timing, phrasing, emphasis, and intonation

• The process of spelling words based on their sounds

What is Decode?

• The ability to take apart the sounds (phonemes) in words and blend sounds together to create meaning

• The process of spelling words based on their sounds (phonemes)

• A single unit that holds meaning (example: jumping has two morphemes. "jump" and "ing")

• A single unit of sound

What is Encode?

• The process of spelling words based on their sounds (phonemes)

• Greek stem that means sound

• A single unit of sound

• The ability to take apart the sounds (phonemes) in words and blend sounds together to create meaning

What is Prosody?

• The defining feature of expressive reading, which comprises all of the variables of timing, phrasing, emphasis, and intonation

• The study of speech sounds and how sounds can change depending on context or placements in syllables, words, and sentences

• The relationship between letters and sounds

• The alphabetic letters that represent sounds

What is a Digraph?

• Two letters that make one sound, can be made up vowels or constants

• Greek word that means two

• Two separate vowel sounds within the same syllable. Also known as a "gliding vowel" because one sound literally glides into another

• Understanding the meaning of words and phrases