Phonics Review

What is the smallest unit of sound in a language?

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

• Syllable

• Morpheme

What is a written/printed symbol used to represent a speech sound?

• Grapheme

• Blend

• Diphthong

• Sight Words

What is the diacritical marking for long vowels?

• Breve

• Macron

• Morpheme

• Phonics

What is the combination of two letters that result in one speech sound?

• Digraph

• Blend

• Diphthong

• Syllable

What is the knowledge that letters work together in a systematic way to represent sounds of spoken language?

• Phonics

• Sight Words

• Morpheme

• Alphabetic Principle

What is the oral language unit in which a vowel sound is heard?

• phoneme
• consonant
• grapheme
• syllable

What is the smallest meaningful unit of language called?

• phoneme
• grammar
• morpheme

• syntax

What is it called when two consonants are combined into a sound in which both are heard?

• Consonant blend
• Consonant cluster
• Consonant digraph
• Consonant pair

What is the diacritical marking for short vowels called?

• tilde
• acute
• circumflex
• breve

Two adjacent vowels blended into a sound in which both are still heard. What is this called?

• monophthong
• diphthong

• vowel digraph
• triphthong