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1. How many letters or combinations of letters make the long o sound (as in "toe") in English?
   Answer: There are 6 ways to spell the sound of long o in the English language: o as in over; oa as in oatmeal; oe as in toe; ow as in blow; o plus a consonant and silent e as in bone, and ough as in though.
2. What is a syllable?
   Answer: A syllable is a word or a part of a word that contains one vowel sound.
3. How many syllables are there in the word pig?
   Answer: 1
4. How many syllables are there in the word justification?
   Answer: 5
5. What is a phoneme?
   Answer: A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. Words can be broken into their component phonemes.
6. How many phonemes are there in the following words: cat, chat, fish, stick, blue?
   Answer: Cat contains 3: /c/, /a/, and /t/.
   Chat contains 3: /ch/, /a/, and /t/.
   Fish contains 3: /f/, /i/, and /sh/.
   Stick contains 4: /s/, /t/, /i/, and /k/.
   Blue contains 3: /b/, /l/, and /oo/.
7. What is the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme?
   Answer: A phoneme is a speech sound, and a grapheme is a written letter. The word fish, for example, contains three phonemes or speech sounds (/f/, /i/, /sh/) and four graphemes, or letters (f, i, s, h).
8. How many graphemes are in the following words: cat, chat, fish, stick, blue?
   Answer: Cat contains 3.
   Chat contains 4.
   Fish contains 4.
   Stick contains 5.
   Blue contains 4.
9. Which two words from the following list have the same vowel sound: kept, bag, weigh, head, be?
   Answer: Kept and head.
10. Identify the consonant blends in each of the following words: fist, slip, stride, shred, prod.
    Answer: The st in fist, the sl in slip, the str in stride, the shr in shred, and the pr in prod.