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 phonemes.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

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What is the beginning sound of the word 'cat'?

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The beginning sound of 'cat' is /k/.

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What is the beginning sound of the word 'dog'?

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The beginning sound of 'dog' is /d/.

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What is the beginning sound of the word 'fish'?

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The beginning sound of 'fish' is /f/.

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What is a vowel?

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A vowel is a speech sound in many languages that is typically represented by the letters A, E, I, O, U.

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What is a consonant?

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A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel and is typically represented by all other letters in the alphabet.

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What sound does the letter 'b' make?

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The letter 'b' makes the /b/ sound.

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What sound does the letter 's' make?

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The letter 's' makes the /s/ sound.

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What sound does the letter 'm' make?

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The letter 'm' makes the /m/ sound.