Phonics

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

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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.

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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.

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What is blending in phonics?

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Blending is the ability to combine individual sounds to form a word.

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What is segmenting in phonics?

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Segmenting is the ability to break a word down into its individual sounds.

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What is a digraph?

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A digraph is two letters that make one sound, like 'sh' in 'ship'.

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What is a diphthong?

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A diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins with one vowel sound and glides into another, like 'oi' in 'boil'.

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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.

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What is a sight word?

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A sight word is a word that is recognized immediately without having to sound it out.