Definitions
What is a blend?
baked
4
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?
In phonemic-awareness instruction, graphemes and letters are NOT used
What is a digraph?
Two letters that work together and make a new sound together
play
3
Can you give an example of a blend?
BL, SL, STR, etc
What is a phoneme?
individual speech sounds
street
5
Can the number of letters in a word not match the number of sounds?
Yes sometimes there are more letters than sounds
What is a grapheme?
individual letters or groups of letters that represent phonemes
risk
4
Can you give an example of a digraph
SH, CH, PH, KN, etc
What are letters?
the visual building blocks of written words
fox
4
Can you give an example of a word where the number of letters does not match the number of phonemes
black, click, etc.