Science of Reading Vocab

The understanding of different ways that oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated is

• Letterland

• Phonemic awareness

• Phonological awareness

• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

The understanding that words are made up of individual sounds is

• Phonological awareness

• Blending

• Nonsense word fluency

• Phonemic awareness

The smallest unit of writing that corresponds with sound

• Letters

• Phoneme

• Grapheme

• Phonics

The part of a syllable that consists of the vowel and any consonants after it is called

• Onset

• Rime

• Suffix

• Word family

The smallest unit of sound is called a

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

• Letter

• Blend

A combination of two letters that represents one sound, such as ch or sh, is a

• Blend

• Digraph

• Trigraph

• Rime

The consonant or consonant blend that precedes the vowel in a word is called the

• Rime

• Onset

• Word family

When two or more consonant sounds appear together and each individual sound can still be heard, such as st or fr, that is called a

• Digraph

• Trigraph

• Onset

• Blend

Also known as a gliding vowel, this is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable, such as oi or ou

• Blend

• Digraph

• Trigraph

• Diphthong

An unaccented vowel sound is called a

• Rime

• Pattern

• Schwa

• Onset