Knowledge of the alphabetic code
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Phonics includes Skills of blending and segmenting Knowledge of the alphabetic code +
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Phonemes and Graphemes Phoneme- The smallest unit of sound in a word. Can be represented by one or more letters eg th, ear Grapheme – The letter or letters representing the phoneme. Eg s, th Digraph – Two letters representing one phoneme. Eg sh, ch, th, ss Some of the vocab that your children might come home using, we try to introduce it early on so that the children are very used to hearing it. Trigraph – Three letters representing one phoneme. Eg air, ear, igh The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way. Eg ee, ea,
Transcript of Knowledge of the alphabetic code
Phonics includes
Skills of blending and segmenting
Knowledge of the
alphabetic code
+
Phonemes and GraphemesPhoneme- The smallest unit of sound in a word.
Can be represented by one or more letters eg th, ear
Grapheme – The letter or letters representing the phoneme. Eg s, th
Digraph – Two letters representing one phoneme. Eg sh, ch, th, ssTrigraph – Three letters representing one phoneme. Eg air, ear, igh
The same phoneme can be represented in more than one way. Eg ee, ea,
Phonics System (For English Language)
•26 letters of the alphabet
•44 phonemes
•140 ways of representing them
Correct Enunciation of Phonemes
•Continuing sounds- f, m, n, r, s, sh, v, th, z
•Without voice/ from your throat- c, p, t, ch, h
•As clearly as possible – b, d, g, w, qu, y
Blending and Segmenting
BlendingRecognising the letter sounds in a word eg c-a-t and merging them together, in the order in which they occur in the word, to read the word ‘cat’SegmentingIdentifying the individual sounds in a spoken word eg d-o-g and writing down the letters for each sound (phoneme) to make the word ‘dog’
