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  2. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    [72] [73] It reported that twelve successful schools employed common methods of teaching reading using systematic phonics with features such as; having a clearly defined and incremental approach to the correspondence between the letters and the sounds; applying the blending of the sounds all through the word; and segmenting the phonemes (sounds ...

  3. Elision - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. [1]

  4. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    For example, shrouds would be read by pronouncing the sounds for each spelling, sh,r,ou,d,s (IPA / ʃ, r, aʊ, d, z /), then blending those sounds orally to produce a spoken word, sh - r - ou - d - s = shrouds (IPA / ʃ r aʊ d z /). The goal of either a blended phonics or synthetic phonics instructional program is that students identify the ...

  5. Segment (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech". [1] The term is most used in phonetics and phonology to refer to the smallest elements in a language , and this usage can be synonymous with the term phone .

  6. Phonemic awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phoneme isolation: which requires recognizing the individual sounds in words, for example, "Tell me the first sound you hear in the word paste" (/p/). Phoneme identity: which requires recognizing the common sound in different words, for example, "Tell me the sound that is the same in bike, boy and bell" ( /b/ ).

  7. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    For example, the sounds /b/ and /p/ differ in the amount of breathiness that follows the opening of the lips. Using a computer generated continuum in breathiness between /b/ and /p/, Eimas et al. (1971) showed that English-learning infants paid more attention to differences near the boundary between /b/ and /p/ than to equal-sized differences ...

  8. Poetry from Daily Life: Capturing crackling consonants ... - AOL

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    Here's an example of a poem where I had a lot of fun playing with sounds. The poem, from my collection "Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market," is about a scissors grinder.

  9. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, prosody (/ ˈ p r ɒ s ə d i, ˈ p r ɒ z-/) [1] [2] is the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments: vowels and consonants.