Phonics

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What is Phonics?

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Phonics is a method of teaching reading and writing by developing learners' phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken words.

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What is a Phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. For example, the word 'cat' has three phonemes: /k/, /æ/, and /t/.

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What is a Grapheme?

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A grapheme is a letter or a group of letters that represent a phoneme. For example, the grapheme 'sh' represents the phoneme /ʃ/ as in 'shoe'.

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What is Blending in Phonics?

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Blending is the process of combining individual sounds (phonemes) to form a word. For example, blending the sounds /c/, /a/, and /t/ makes the word 'cat'.

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What is Segmenting in Phonics?

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Segmenting is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds (phonemes). For example, the word 'dog' can be segmented into /d/, /ɔ/, and /g/.

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What are Vowels?

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Vowels are the letters A, E, I, O, U (and sometimes Y) that represent sounds in words. They are essential for forming syllables.

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What are Consonants?

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Consonants are all the letters in the alphabet that are not vowels. They represent sounds that are produced by obstructing airflow.

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What is a Syllable?

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A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word. For example, the word 'banana' has three syllables: ba-na-na.

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What is a Rime?

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A rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and any following consonants. For example, in the word 'cat', the rime is 'at'.

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What is a Word Family?

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A word family is a group of words that share a common feature or pattern, such as 'cat', 'bat', and 'hat', which all share the rime 'at'.