Phonemic awareness
the ability to hear, identify and manipulate with the individual sounds in spoken words
Phonological awareness
Phonics
The knowledge of letter-to-sound correspondences
alphabetic principle
speech sounds are represented by letters
phonemes
The smallest unit of speech
graphemes
English letters that represent phonemes
vowels
speech sounds made when air leaving you lungs is vibrated in the voice box and there is a clear passage from your voice box to your mouth
consonants
speech sounds that occur when your airflow is obstructed by you mouth in some way
onsets
The initial consonant sound or consonant blend
rime
the vowel sounds and any consonant that follows