Phonics Quiz

What is a phoneme?

• the relationship between sounds / letters

• A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in speech. When we teach reading we teach children which letters represent those sounds. For example – the word 'hat' has 3 phonemes – 'h' 'a' and 't'.

• is a letter or a number of letters that represent the sounds in our speech.

What is a grapheme?

• is a letter or a number of letters that represent the sounds in our speech.

• th, ph, ch, pl

• the relationship between letters and sounds

How any phonemes are in the word ditch

• 4

• 1

• 2

• 3

In the word thing /th/ is a

• phoneme

• consonant blend

• schwa

• digraph

A syllable always contains

• a vowel

• a consonant

• a morpheme

What is a digraph?

• a consonant blend

• 2 consonants are joined together to form one new sound ch,sh,th,ph,

• 2 vowel sounds

what is the split digraph?

• examples are igh, air

• is where three letters are used to represent one sound (or 'phoneme'). Trigraphs can consist of all consonants, a mixture of consonants and vowels and, in some cases, all vowels.

• A split digraph also contains two letters (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e) but they are split between a consonant, for example; make, bike and pure. The split digraph works by using an 'e' after the initial vowel to change the sound of the vowel.

What is a trigraph?

• a prefix and suffix

• is a four-letter grapheme that represents one phoneme/sound. For example, the 'eigh' representing the /ay/ sound in the word eight

• is where three letters are used to represent one sound (or 'phoneme'). Trigraphs can consist of all consonants, a mixture of consonants and vowels and, in some cases, all vowels. Some examples of trigraphs include 'eau', 'tch', 'igh' and 'air'.

What is a homophone?

• words that are spelt the same and sound the same

• each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, for example new and knew.

• is a word that has the same meaning as another word (or nearly the same meaning). For example, beautiful and attractive are synonyms of each other because they both refer to someone or something that looks good.