Phonological Awareness- Conscious awareness of all levels of the speech sound system, including word boundaries, stress patterns, syllables, onset-rime units, and phonemes..

Phonological Processing- Multiple functions of speech and language perception and production, such as perceiving, interpreting, storing (remembering), recalling or retrieving, and generating the speech sound system of a language.

Phonetics- The study of the sounds of human speech; articulatory phonetics refers to the way the sounds are physically produced in the human vocal tract.

Phonemic Awareness- Conscious awareness that words are made up of segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography.

Phonology- The rule system in a language by which phonemes can be sequenced, combined, and pronounced to make words.

Phonemes- In any language, the smallest unit of sound used to build words.

Syllables- the "beats" within a word.

Onsets- The beginning consonant sound of a single-syllable word.

Rimes- the vowel & everything that follows it in a single syllable word.

RAN- Rapid Automatic Naming- a reading screening test.

Place of Articulation- where we make the sound; in the front, back, or middle of mouth.

English has 44 phonemes but only 26 letters.