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 vowel?

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A vowel is a letter in the alphabet that represents a speech sound made without any closure or blockage of the vocal tract. The vowels in English are A, E, I, O, U.

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What is a consonant?

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A consonant is a letter in the alphabet that represents a speech sound made by obstructing airflow in some way. Examples include B, C, D, F, G.

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What does it mean to blend sounds?

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Blending sounds means to combine individual sounds together to form a word. For example, blending the sounds /c/, /a/, and /t/ makes the word 'cat'.

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What is a digraph?

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A digraph is a combination of two letters that make one sound, such as 'sh' in 'ship' or 'ch' in 'chair'.

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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 rhyme?

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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, often at the end of lines in poems or songs, like 'cat' and 'hat'.

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What is a sight word?

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A sight word is a word that is recognized immediately without needing to sound it out. Examples include 'the', 'and', 'is'.

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

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What is a short vowel sound?

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A short vowel sound is the sound a vowel makes in a syllable that is not stressed, like the 'a' in 'cat'.