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Phonics

Terminology:

Phonemes: The sounds that are found within a word. 

Grapheme: The way we write down a sound. 

Digraph: Two letters that make one sound. 

Trigraph: Three letters that make one sound. 

Blending: Seeing a word and merging the phonemes together to read the word. 

Segmenting: Chopping up a word into separate phonemes to spell it out. 

Tricky words: Words that cannot be decoded. 

Spelling: Writing words using the correct letters in the order to be read by others. 

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