Phonemic Awareness 1

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How many phonemes are in the English language?

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44

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How many graphemes are in the word 'Education'?

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9

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How many consonant phonemes are in the English language?

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24

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A trigraph is _ letters, making 1 sound.

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3, three

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A digraph is _ letters, making 1 sound.

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2, two

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language.

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What is a grapheme?

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A grapheme is the smallest unit of written language that represents a phoneme.

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What is the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme?

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A phoneme is a sound, while a grapheme is a letter or group of letters that represent that sound.

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Can a single phoneme be represented by multiple graphemes? Give an example.

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Yes, for example, the phoneme /f/ can be represented by 'f' in 'fish' and 'ph' in 'phone'.

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What is an example of a digraph?

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'ch' in 'chair' is an example of a digraph.