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 the airflow in some way. Examples include B, C, D, F, G.

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What does 'blending' mean 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 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 common word that children are encouraged to recognize without having to sound it out. Examples include 'the', 'and', 'is'.

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What does 'segmenting' mean 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/, /o/, /g/.

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What is a vowel team?

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A vowel team is a combination of two vowels that together make one sound, such as 'ea' in 'bread' or 'ai' in 'rain'.