Foundational Skills Key Terms to Know

The base word of review is _______.

• view

• revise

• check

• assess

Fill in the blank: A _______ is a speech sound in which the breath is at least partially obstructed.

• Consonant

• Vowel

• Syllable

• Phoneme

Examples of consonant blends are _______.

• 'bl' in 'black' or 'st' in 'stop'.

• 'ea' in 'bread'.

• 'ch' in 'chop'.

• 'ai' in 'rain'.

Examples of consonant digraphs are _______.

• ch, sh, th, wh

• ai, ei, oi, ui

• an, en, in, on

• ar, er, ir, or

Fill in the blank: _______ readers provide aligned, in-context student practice with phonics skills more effectively than pattern books.

• Decodable

• Pattern

• Picture

• Story

Fill in the blank: _______ is using one or more strategies to identify a written word and its meaning.

• Decoding

• Encoding

• Transcribing

• Translating

A Digraph is:

• a type of graph consisting of nodes connected by edges, where the edges have a direction associated with them

• a type of graph consisting of nodes connected by edges, where the edges do not have a direction

• A written symbol that represents a sound.

• Two letters that combine together to correspond to one sound (phoneme).

  Ex: sh, th, ng

A Grapheme is:

• a type of fruit

• a unit of sound in a language

• A written symbol that represents a sound

• a type of graph

An Inflected Ending is:

• a suffix added to a word to indicate tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender

• a prefix added to a word to change its meaning

• a root word that stands alone

• a type of punctuation mark

An Onset in phonetics is:

• the initial consonant sound of a syllable

• the vowel sound in a syllable

• the final consonant sound of a syllable

• the stress pattern of a word