PHONICS Associating sounds with letters of the alphabet.

CONSONANTS When sounding, air flow is interrupted or limited by the position of the tongue,
teeth or lips.
VOWELS When sounding, your breath flows freely through the mouth.

LONG AND SHORT VOWELS Whether a vowel has a long sound, a short sound, or remains silent, depends on its
position in a word and the letters around it.
WORD DECODING The ability to apply the knowledge of letter-sound relationship (phonics), including
the knowledge of letter patterns (eg: cvc, cvcc, ccvc) in order to correctly
pronounce written words.
WORD FAMILIES Groups of words that have a common feature or pattern they have some of the
same combinations of letters.
BODY CODA When we combine the onset with the vowel, we get the body of a syllable.
Everything after the body is the coda.
DIGRAPHS A combination of two letters representing one sound, as in ph and ey.

DIPHTONGS A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable.

BLENDING The ability to combine separate sounds to make up a word.

SEGMENTING The ability to hear a word and identify the individual sounds that make up a word.

ONSET-RIME The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term
"rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final
consonants
 PHONICS
CONSONANTS

VOWELS
LONG AND
SHORT
VOWELS

WORD
DECODING
 WORD
FAMILIES

BODY CODA

DIGRAPHS
DIPHTONGS

BLENDING

SEGMENTING
ONSET-RIME

Associating sounds with letters of

the alphabet.
When sounding, air flow is
interrupted or limited by the
position of the tongue, teeth or lips.
When sounding, your breath flows
freely through the mouth.
Whether a vowel has a long sound, a
short sound, or remains silent,
depends on its position in a word
and the letters around it.
The ability to apply the knowledge of
letter-sound relationship (phonics),
including the knowledge of letter
patterns (eg: cvc, cvcc, ccvc) in order.
to correctly pronounce written
words.
Groups of words that have a
common feature or pattern they
have some of the same
combinations of letters.
When we combine the onset with
the vowel, we get the body of a
syllable. Everything after the body is
the coda.
A combination of two letters
representing one sound, as in ph and
ey.
A sound formed by the combination
of two vowels in a single syllable.
The ability to combine separate
sounds to make up a word.
The ability to hear a word and
identify the individual sounds that
make up a word.
The "onset" is the initial
phonological unit of any word (e.g. c
in cat) and the term "rime" refers to
the string of letters that follow,
usually a vowel and final consonants