Phonics

What is word recognition?

• Using phonics and tricky word knowledge to read the word.

• Understanding the meaning of the word.

• Recognizing the colour of a word.

• Translating a word into your native language.

What is language comprehension?

• Being able to split a word up into prefix and root word.

• Using phonics and tricky word knowledge to read a word.

• Translating a word to your native language.

• Understanding the meaning of written and spoken English.

What is a phoneme?

• A word that can not be broken down into phonemes.

• Smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word.

• The letters that represent a sound.

• Two letters working together to make one sound.

What is a grapheme?

• Two letters working together to make one sound.

• Letters that represent a phoneme.

• The smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word.

• A past tense verb.

How many phonemes are in the word 'Flight'

• 4

• 6

• 5

• 3

How many phonemes are in the word 'Phone' ?

• 4

• 5

• 2

• 3

What is blending?

• Mixing words to make a rhyme.

• Putting individual sounds together to read a word.

• Two letters working together to make one sound.

• Splitting up a word into its phonemes.

What is segmenting?

• Two letters working together to make one sound.

• Putting the sounds together to read a word.

• Mixing words together to rhyme.

• Splitting up a word into it's individual phonemes.

What is a digraph?

• Two words that are spelt the same.

• Two words that sound the same.

• Two letters working together to make one sound.

• Three letters working together to make one sound.

What is a tricky word?

• A word you can't use phonics rules to read.

• A word that you can use your phonics to read.

• A word that starts with a vowel.

• A word that has three phonemes.