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Phonics
What are phonics?
Phonics: a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with symbols in an alphabetic writing system.
Vocabulary
Phoneme: the sound the letters make.
Grapheme: the letters or letters used to write the phoneme.
Digraph: a 2 letter grapheme. For example, ch, sh, th, ng, ai.
Trigraph: a 3 letter grapheme. For example, igh, ear, air
Split vowel digraph: A two letter grapheme that represent a vowel phoneme or sound where the sounds are pushed apart by another letter. This digraph often used to be referred to as a magic e. For example, kite, cake, phone, these, cube.
Blending: Building words for reading by pushing together all the phonemes or sounds in the word.
Segmenting: Splitting up words for spelling by breaking up words into all their sounds and then working out what letter or letters are needed to represent each sound.
Graphemes in the order taught
Real and nonsense words
Nonsense word cards
Catch the alien words!
