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 a Blend?

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A blend is when two or more consonants are combined, and each sound can be heard. For example, 'bl' in 'black'.

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What is a Digraph?

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A digraph is two letters that make one sound. For example, 'ch' in 'chair'.

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What is a Vowel?

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A vowel is a letter that represents a speech sound made with an open 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 that represents a speech sound made by partially or completely blocking the airflow. Examples include B, C, D, F.

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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 Rhyming?

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Rhyming is when two or more words have the same ending sound. For example, 'cat' and 'hat' rhyme.

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What is a Word Family?

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A word family is a group of words that have a common feature or pattern. For example, 'cat', 'bat', and 'hat' are all part of the '-at' word family.