Chapter 4: Cracking the Alphabetic Code

Sounds; smallest units of speech

• phonics

• spelling

• phoneme

• grapheme

Letters

• graphemes

• phonemes

• syntax

• morphemes

letter sound relationships

• graphemes

• graphophonemic

• morphemes

• phonemes

the set of relationships between phonology and orthography

• phonemes

• graphemes

• graphophonemic

• phonics

the ability to segment spoken words into sounds and convert the sounds into letters to spell words

• phonemes

• phonics

• spelling

• writing

children's basic understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds

• phonemic awareness

• fluency

• phonics

• vocabulary

the sounds in speech

• phonics

• phonology

• orthograph

• etymology

language origin

• phonology

• phonics

• etymology

• orthography

the consonant sound that preceeds the vowel in one syllable words

• rime

• rhyme

• schwa

• onset

the vowel and any consonants that follow the onset

• blend

• rhyme

• rime

• digraph