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 phonemes.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word that can change its meaning.

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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.

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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 vowel?

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A vowel is a letter that represents a speech sound made with the vocal tract open, such as '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 airflow, such as '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, like 'cat' has one syllable and 'happy' has two.

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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.

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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, like 'the' or 'and'.

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What does it mean to segment sounds?

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Segmenting sounds means to break a word down into its individual sounds.