Phonics Vocabulary

a combination of two letters that stand for a single sound

• consonant blend

• digraph

• affix

• morpheme

a written representation of a sound

• morpheme

• phoneme

• rime

• grapheme

the pronunciation units into which a word is divided

• syllables

• phonemes

• fricatives

• blends

a diacritical mark used to represent a short-vowel sound

• breve

• affix

• diphthong

• macron

the understanding or insight that a word is made up of a series of discrete sounds

• metacognition

• phonemic awareness

• successive blending

• word identification

the part of the syllable that comes before the vowel

• schwa

• blend

• rime

• onset

the process of spelling a word

• decoding

• blending

• phonics

• encoding