Sounds Review Flashcardizz

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What is a sound?

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A sound is a vibration that travels through the air or another medium and can be heard when it reaches a person's or animal's ear.

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What is a short vowel sound?

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A short vowel sound is a vowel sound that is pronounced in a short, quick manner, such as the 'a' in 'cat' or the 'i' in 'pig'.

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How many sounds are in the word 'cat'?

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The word 'cat' has 3 sounds: /k/, /æ/, and /t/.

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

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What is a consonant?

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A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel. Examples include 'b', 'c', 'd', etc.

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What is a vowel?

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A vowel is a speech sound that is produced without any significant constriction of airflow in the vocal tract. The vowels in English are 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u'.

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What does it mean to blend sounds?

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Blending sounds means to combine individual sounds together to form a word, such as blending /k/, /æ/, and /t/ to say 'cat'.

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What is a rhyming word?

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A rhyming word is a word that has the same ending sound as another word, such as 'cat' and 'hat'.

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What is a sound change?

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A sound change is when one sound in a word is replaced with another sound, such as changing the /p/ in 'pig' to /w/ to make 'wig'.

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What is segmentation?

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Segmentation is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds, such as breaking 'cat' into /k/, /æ/, and /t/.