Phonics

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What is Phonics?

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Phonics is a method of teaching reading and writing by developing learners' phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes in spoken words.

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What is a Phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word. For example, the word 'cat' has three phonemes: /k/, /æ/, and /t/.

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What is a Blending?

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Blending is the process of combining individual sounds (phonemes) to form a word. For example, blending the sounds /d/, /o/, and /g/ makes the word 'dog'.

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What is a Digraph?

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A digraph is a combination of two letters that make one sound, such as 'sh' in 'ship' or 'ch' in 'chair'.

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What is a Vowel?

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A vowel is a letter that represents a speech sound made with an open vocal tract. The vowels in English are A, E, I, O, and U.

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What is a Consonant?

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A consonant is a letter that represents a speech sound made by partially or completely blocking the airflow. Examples include B, C, D, F, etc.

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What is a Rime?

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A rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and any following consonants. For example, in the word 'cat', 'at' is the rime.

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What is a Syllable?

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A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word. For example, the word 'banana' has three syllables: ba-na-na.

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What is a CVC Word?

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A CVC word is a three-letter word that follows the pattern consonant-vowel-consonant, such as 'bat', 'cat', or 'dog'.

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What is a Sight Word?

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A sight word is a common word that children are encouraged to recognize without having to sound it out. Examples include 'the', 'and', 'is'.

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