Praxis 5002

High-frequency words are words that appear often in written text and are often memorized by sight.

Digraphs are two letter combinations that create one phoneme, such as 'th', 'sh', 'ch', 'wh', 'ph', 'ng', 'gh', and 'ck'.

Segmenting is the process of breaking a word apart into its individual sounds or phonemes.

An R-controlled syllable is a syllable that contains one or two vowels followed by the letter 'r', such as in 'car', 'far', 'her', 'fur', and 'sir'.

Blending is the ability to string together the sounds that each letter stands for in a word.

Decodable words are words that can be sounded out using phonetic principles.

Compound words are formed when two or more words are combined to create a new word, such as 'sunflower' or 'toothbrush'.

Base words are the simplest form of a word, to which prefixes or suffixes can be added.

Trigraphs are three letter combinations that create one phoneme, such as 'tch' in 'watch'.

Diphthongs are complex vowel sounds that begin with one vowel sound and glide into another within the same syllable.