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| phoneme | the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words |
| grapheme | the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word |
| phonics | the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes |
| phonemic awareness | the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words |
| phonological awareness | an awareness of all levels of the speech sound system |
| syllable | a word part that contains a vowel |
| onset | the initial consonant sound of a syllable |
| rime | the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it |
