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1. Origin of the word phoneme - correct answer - Comes from the Greek
word Sonos meaning sound or voice
2. Phonemes - correct answer - The smallest unit of sound in the spoken
language (oral and letters)
3. Grapheme - correct answer - Written letter
4. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonics? -
correct answer - Phonemic awareness is an oral
skill that is independent of print. Phonics is the ability to recognize letter
sound correspondence at words. Phonics is both visual and oral. You
can have phonological awareness without having phonics, but you
cannot have phonics without phonological awareness.
5. Five key components of oral language - correct answer - On a logical
skills, pragmatics, syntax, more philogical skills, vocabulary. These are
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necessary skills to communicate and learn through conversation and the
spoken interaction.
6. Stop sounds - correct answer - These are sounds were the airstream is
stopped briefly
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7. Allophones - correct answer - VOiced and unvoiced sounds. Slight
variations to the pronunciation of phonemes due to the coarticulation ex.
/p/ /b/
8. Nasals - correct answer - Sounds that resonate in the nasal cavity. The
air gets pushed through your nose. If you hold your nose while you
make the sound he will be able to do it
9. Velar Nasal - correct answer - /ng/ one sound. Hard g not pronounced
10. Fricative - correct answer - These are sounds narrow in shape the
airstream but do not stop it. Air seeps out between articulators. They are
continuant. /s/ z sh zh f v th h
11. /h/ - correct answer - On voice and does not have a sister sound. This
sound is The only continent that does not use an articulator for the
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production of the sound. It is a glottal fricative. It meets the definition of a
glide but it's vocalize as a fricative
12. skilled reading - correct answer - Fluent execution and coordination of
word recognition and text comprehension
13. Glottis - correct answer - The vocal cords and the opening between
them.
14. 2 domains of reading - correct answer - Decoding and language
comprehension
15. Four phases of reading - correct answer - Pre-alphabetic
Partial alphabetic
Full alphabetic
Consolidated alphabetic
16. Pre-alphabetic reading - correct answer - The child does not know
that letters are used to represent speech sounds and cannot identify the
separate speech sounds. They read by memorization and use visual
features and guess words from the context. Example when children read
a McDonald's sign or can make up a story based off the pictures