Phonemes, Graphemes and Letters

Definitions

100

What is a blend?

Two letters that work together and you hear each sound.

200

What is a digraph?

Two letters that work together and make a new sound together

300

What is a phoneme?

individual speech sounds

400

What is a grapheme?

individual letters or groups of letters that represent phonemes

500

What are letters?

the visual building blocks of written words

How many phonemes

100

baked

4

200

play

3

300

street

5

400

risk

4

500

fox

4

Questions about Phonemes

100

What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?

In phonemic-awareness instruction, graphemes and letters are NOT used

200

Can you give an example of a blend?

BL, SL, STR, etc

300

Can the number of letters in a word not match the number of sounds?

Yes sometimes there are more letters than sounds

400

Can you give an example of a digraph

SH, CH, PH, KN, etc

500

Can you give an example of a word where the number of letters does not match the number of phonemes

black, click, etc.