Phonics, Grammar & Context: Sight Words, Vowels, Blends, Prefixes, Suffixes, Quizzes of History of Education

Download Phonics, Grammar & Context: Sight Words, Vowels, Blends, Prefixes, Suffixes and more Quizzes History of Education in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 sight words DEFINITION 1 I, my, a, in TERM 2 R-Controlled Vowel DEFINITION 2 When a vowel is followed by an r, it makes a special sound. These are called r-controlled vowels, or r-colored vowels car, guitar, Arthurcare, bear, mare, scare, aquarium, pier, mother TERM 3 Vowel Dipthongs DEFINITION 3 a complex sound made by gliding from one vowel sound to another within the same syllable, as in boy and out. Technically, a diphthong is such a sound that consists of two vowels, TERM 4 consonant blends DEFINITION 4 When two or more letters appear together and you hear each sound that each consonant would normally make, the combination is called a blend. For instance, the word blend has two consonant blends: bl, for which you hear the sounds for both b and l, and nd, for which you hear the sounds for both n and d. TERM 5 consonant digraphs DEFINITION 5 a single sound, or phoneme, which is represented by two letters. consonants join together to form a kind of consonant team, which makes a special sound. For instance, p and h combine to form ph, which makes the /f/ sound as in phonemic.