Phonics Vocabulary
Know and use the vocabulary of phonics and word structure — phoneme, grapheme, GPC (grapheme-phoneme correspondence), blend, segment, digraph, CVC, vowel, consonant, syllable, root word, suffix, prefix, and homophone — and understand that these words describe the building blocks that phonics instruction is built on
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Phonics has special vocabulary. A phoneme is a sound. A grapheme is the letter or letters that write a sound. A digraph is two letters for one sound, like sh. Blend means push sounds together to read. Segment means pull a word apart into sounds to spell.
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- Say the sounds for common graphemes (e.g. 'sh', 'ch', 'th', 'ee', 'igh') and use 'phoneme' and 'grapheme' correctly when explaining
- Blend sounds together to read an unfamiliar word and explain what they are doing using the word 'blend'
- Segment a word into its individual sounds for spelling and use the term 'segment' to describe the process
“When your child's teacher asks them to 'segment a word into phonemes' or spot a 'digraph', do they understand what those words mean and can they do the task without looking confused?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Spelling & Word Study
- Age range
- Ages 4–7