Phonic Knowledge

A grapheme is

• The smallest unit of sound in a word (the sounds we hear in words).

• Letters that represent a phoneme (one sound).

• Three letters that make one sound eg ‘igh’ as in ‘sigh’.

• A unit within a word containing one vowel plus any consonants.

decode

• Symbol to sound.

• Sound to symbol

• Taking individual sounds and blending them together to identify a word when reading. Eg /d/ /o/ /g/ = dog

• To break down a word, isolating it into its phonemes. 

  Eg cat = /c/ /a/ /t/

segment

• Symbol to sound.

• Sound to symbol

• Taking individual sounds and blending them together to identify a word when reading. Eg /d/ /o/ /g/ = dog

• To break down a word, isolating it into its phonemes. 

  Eg cat = /c/ /a/ /t/

A syllable is

• The smallest unit of sound in a word (the sounds we hear in words).

• Letters that represent a phoneme (one sound).

• Three letters that make one sound eg ‘igh’ as in ‘sigh’.

• A unit within a word containing one vowel plus any consonants.

A phoneme is

• The smallest unit of sound in a word (the sounds we hear in words).

• Letters that represent a phoneme (one sound).

• Three letters that make one sound eg ‘igh’ as in ‘sigh’.

• A unit within a word containing one vowel plus any consonants.

encode

• Symbol to sound.

• Sound to symbol

• Taking individual sounds and blending them together to identify a word when reading. Eg /d/ /o/ /g/ = dog

• To break down a word, isolating it into its phonemes. 

  Eg cat = /c/ /a/ /t/

A trigraph is

• The smallest unit of sound in a word (the sounds we hear in words).

• Letters that represent a phoneme (one sound).

• Three letters that make one sound eg ‘igh’ as in ‘sigh’.

• A unit within a word containing one vowel plus any consonants.

blend

• Symbol to sound.

• Sound to symbol

• Taking individual sounds and blending them together to identify a word when reading. Eg /d/ /o/ /g/ = dog

• To break down a word, isolating it into its phonemes. 

  Eg cat = /c/ /a/ /t/