Phonics Midterm Review Crossword

A method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading.
The study of human speech sounds.
The smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes one word from another.
The ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds.
A sound represented by any letter of the English alphabet except a, e, i, o, u, w, y. These sounds are made by closing or restricting the breath channel.
Sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities.
A sound represented by a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet. These are sounds made without closing or restricting the breath channel.
A single vowel sound made up of a glide from one vowel sound to another in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable.
When a vowel letter is followed by the letter r, it affects the vowel sound so that it is neither short nor long.
An unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables.
A letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme.
Two letters that stand for a single phoneme (sound).
The consonant sound(s) of a syllable that come(s) before the vowel sound.
The part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sound(s) that come(s) after it.
A letter sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and (an) ending consonant grapheme(s). From these we generate word families.
A unit of pronunciation consisting of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants.
Any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme (sound).
any syllable that ends with a vowel sound (phoneme).
The orthographic symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a short sound.
The orthographic symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a long sound.
The orthographic symbol placed above vowel graphemes to indicate pronunciation.