Phonics - Key Terminology

What is a 'phoneme'?

• Another name for a mobile telephone.

• An icon or emoji used to represent a telephone.

• The smallest unit of sound in a word.

• An instruction to a friend to give you a call.

What is a 'grapheme'?

• Written representation of a sound which may consist of one or more letters.

• The plural of graph.

• A symbol denoting you should draw a graph to answer an exam question.

• A familial name you might use for a male grandparent.

What is a 'digraph'?

• Two graphs.

• When a graph expires because the data is no longer accurate.

• Two letters which work together to make one sound.

• What people who hate data analysis shout at statistical information.

What is a 'split digraph'.

• Two graphs on opposite pages.

• 'Magic e'

• Two graphs diagonally opposite each other on a page.

• A digraph in which the two letters working together to make one sound are not adjacent.

What is a 'trigraph'?

• A graph comparing the use of tricycles in each city in Britain.

• Three letters which work together to make one sound.

• Three graphs.

• Something drawn whilst riding a tricycle.