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| The 26 letters of the alphabet can be divided into 2 major categories: |
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| Certain letters, ___ & ____, sometimes function as vowels and at other times as consonants. |
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| There are ___ consonant letters. |
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| 2-letter combination that represents a single speech sound |
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| There will be ___ key symbol for each phoneme. Each phoneme will have ___ key symbol. |
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| We can divide the 25 consonant phonemes into 2 major groups: |
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1. 18 consonant phonemes identified by key symbols composed of single letters
2. 7 consonant phonemes identified by key symbols composed of two-letter combinations called digraphs |
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| As single letters, ___, ____, and ___ do not represent distinctive phonemes. |
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| The letters ___, ___, ___, and __ are very dependable. |
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| The q always represents the same sound as the __. |
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| The letter Q, known as koppa in the archaic Greek alphabet, fell out of use and did not survive long enough to become part of the classical Greek alphabet. |
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One pattern is very common to almost all consonants:
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| Two like consonants appearing together in a word generally represent 1 phoneme. |
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| We have noted that in the American-English language, there _____ a consistent one-to-one correspondence between letter and phoneme. |
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| There are ___ consonant letters and ____ consonant phonemes. |
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| The b is silent when it follows an ____ in the same syllable. |
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| When b follows m or precedes t in the same syllable, the ____ is usually silent. |
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| h, as a single letter, has a distinctive characteristic: it is never heard as the ____ sound in a word or syllable |
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| The k is silent at the beginning of a word or syllable when followed by ____. |
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| Two like consonants appearing together in a word generally represent ___ phoneme. |
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| The letter l is sometimes silent when followed in the same syllable by m, k, or d. |
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| is usually silent when it follows m or precedes t (climb, doubt) |
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is silent when it follows the consonants g, k, or r
is silent when it follows a vowel in a word or syllable
sometimes it is silent at the beginning of a word |
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