Phonics Test

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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 a Grapheme?

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A grapheme is the smallest unit of written language, which can be a single letter or a group of letters that represent a phoneme.

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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.

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What is segmenting in phonics?

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Segmenting is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds (phonemes).

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What is a CVC word?

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A CVC word is a three-letter word that follows the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern, such as 'cat' or 'dog'.

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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 represented by all other letters in the alphabet.

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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'.

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What is a blend?

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A blend is a group of two or three consonants that are pronounced together, where each consonant retains its sound, such as 'bl' in 'black'.