| A | B |
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| automaticity | fast automatic responses to the sounds of letters in blending sounds into words |
| blending | moving firom one sound to another to make a word |
| closed syllable | a syllable ending in a consonant which usually has a short vowel |
| consonant | all the letters of the alphabet excepting vowels |
| decode | to read by breaking apart the components of a word; blending the sounds together to make a word |
| digraph | two consonants or vowels making one sound |
| diphthong | two vowels making two separate sounds but said as one sound |
| encode | to spell using auditory sense to help put together the components of a word |
| grapheme | the written representation of a phoneme or letter sound |
| kinesthetic | motor sense |
| multisensory | using the ears, eyes and hand senses to reinforce in the brain memory of the components of language |
| phoneme | the smallest unit of sound |
| phonics | the sounds and symbols of a language |
| root | basic element of a word to which a prefix or suffix may be added |
| schwa | the upside down e symbol that makes a sound like short u |
| stop sounds | sounds that cannot be held, e.g. /p/, /t/, /g/, /j/. |
| syllable | a word or part of a word always havign a vowel sound |
| unvoiced sounds | sounds made when the vocal chords do not vibrate |
| voiced sounds | sounds made by vibrating the vocal chords |
| vowels | a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y and w |
| synthetic | having to do with putting things together |
| analytic | taking things apart and thinking about their structure |
