Words phonics uses

English · Spelling & Word Study · ages 4-7

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What do we call the letters that show one sound?
- Grapheme
- Phoneme
- Segment
What do we call one single sound in a word?
- Grapheme
- Phoneme
- Blend
Segmenting means breaking a word into its separate sounds.
Circle one: True False
Sam breaks 'sun' into s-u-n to spell it. What is Sam doing?
- Blending
- Reading
- Segmenting
You push the sounds c-a-t together to read. What is this called?
- Segmenting
- Blending
- Spelling
Mia pushes sounds together to read a new word. What is she doing?
- Blending
- Segmenting
- Guessing
Which sentence uses the word 'phoneme' the right way?
- The phoneme in 'shop' is spelled s-h-o-p.
- The first phoneme in 'shop' is the /sh/ sound.
- The phoneme is the whole word 'shop'.
Leo says blending means breaking a word into sounds to spell. Is he right?
- Yes, that is blending
- No, that is a digraph
- No, that is segmenting

Answer key

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Grapheme · The letters that show a sound are called a grapheme.
Phoneme · A phoneme is one sound, like the first sound in 'sun'.
True · Yes. When you segment a word, you split it into each sound.
Segmenting · Breaking a word into its sounds for spelling is called segmenting.
Blending · Pushing sounds together to read a word is called blending.
Blending · Pushing sounds together to read a new word is blending.
The first phoneme in 'shop' is the /sh/ sound. · A phoneme is one sound, like /sh/ in 'shop'. It is not the whole word.
No, that is segmenting · Breaking a word into sounds for spelling is segmenting, not blending.