Phonics Review

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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.

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What sound does 'ay' make?

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The sound 'ay' is pronounced like the long 'a' in 'stay'.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

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What is the sound of 'ph' in 'phone'?

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The 'ph' in 'phone' sounds like 'f'.

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What sound does 'ce' make in 'space'?

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The 'ce' in 'space' sounds like 's'.

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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'.

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What is a vowel?

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A vowel is a letter that represents a speech sound made with the vocal tract open, such as 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', '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 obstructing airflow, such as 'b', 'c', 'd', 'f'.

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What is blending in phonics?

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Blending is the process of combining individual sounds to form a word, like blending 'c', 'a', 't' to say 'cat'.

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What is segmenting in phonics?

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Segmenting is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds, like breaking 'dog' into 'd', 'o', 'g'.