The Language of Building Blocks

automatic reading without having to sound out the word

• decoding words

• automaticity

firm, worm, turn, permanent

• "r"-controlled words

• sight words

the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly

• phonemic awareness

• fluency

cat, hat, bat, sat

• compound words

• rhyming words

the process of breaking down words into their individual sounds

• blending

• segmentation

letters that go together represent a sound

• automaticity

• orthographic patterns

match the letters to their sounds

• phonological awareness

• decoding words

syllable ends in a vowel and makes the vowel say its name

• open syllable

• closed syllable

The number of letters in the English language is

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The number of sounds in the English language is

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