Phonics Terminology

2. The knowledge of graphemes and the phonemes that correspond to them
4. The process of turning spoken words into written words
5. Two adjacent vowels in the same syllable whose sounds blend together in a slide to make one sound
9. Sounds produced when the letter r follows a vowel
13. A word or part of a word that ends in one vowel followed by at least one consonant
15. Syllable with two adjacent or side-by-side vowels that work together
16. A syllable with one vowel, one consonant, and a final e (VCe)
17. Consonant phonemes that are spelled with two letters
19. Vowel phonemes that are spelled with two letters
20. The smallest unit of sound in speech.

1. A final, separate syllable that is always stable or reliable in its pronunciation and spelling
3. System of teaching decoding and encoding through a step-by-step process
6. A word or part of a word that ends in one vowel
7. letters or letter combinations
8. The knowledge that letters and groups of letters correspond with individual sounds in words
10. Two or more consonants that are clustered together, but each letter sound can be identified
11. A letter that is not a vowel
12. The vowel sound made in an unstressed syllable
14. The process of turning written words into spoken words
18. A letter that is not a consonant