Phonics Vocabulary
Know and use the vocabulary of phonics and word structure — phoneme, grapheme, GPC (grapheme-phoneme correspondence), blend, segment, digraph, CVC, vowel, consonant, syllable, root word, suffix, prefix, and homophone — and understand that these words describe the building blocks that phonics instruction is built on
What a learner can do afterwards
- Say the sounds for common graphemes (e.g. 'sh', 'ch', 'th', 'ee', 'igh') and use 'phoneme' and 'grapheme' correctly when explaining
- Blend sounds together to read an unfamiliar word and explain what they are doing using the word 'blend'
- Segment a word into its individual sounds for spelling and use the term 'segment' to describe the process
1 · Read
Phonics has its own special words. These words help you talk about sounds and letters.
A phoneme is one sound, like the first sound in 'sun'. A grapheme is the letter or letters that show that sound.
Mia wants to spell 'sun'. She segments it into three sounds: s, u, n. Then she writes s, u, n as letters.
A digraph is two letters that make one sound. Say 'sh' in 'ship'. It makes one soft sound.
Phonics words like phoneme, blend, and segment describe sounds and letters.
2 · Watch
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