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Phoneme: is the smallest unit of sound; for example, the word "cat" has three phonemes c a t

A phoneme is the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words. English has about 41 phonemes. A few words, such as a or oh, have only one phoneme. Most words, however, have more than one phoneme: The word if has two phonemes (/i/ /f/); check has three phonemes (/ch/ /e/ /k/), and stop has four phonemes (/s/ /t/ /o/ /p/). Sometimes one phoneme is represented by more than one letter.

Grapheme - A grapheme is the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word. A grapheme may be just one letter, such as b, d, f, p, s; or several letters, such as ch, sh, th, -ck, ea, -igh.

A grapheme may be one letter such as t or combination of letters such as sh. A grapheme represents one phoneme.

Week Beginning

The letter sounds (phonemes) we are concentrating on this week are:

5th November 2007

"s" (as in sun)

"a" (as in apple)

"t" (as in table)

"p" (as in pot)

12th November 2007

"i" (as in it)

"n" (as in net)

"m" (as in mum)

"d" (as in dad)

19th November 2007

 
"g" (as in gate)

"o" (as in ostrich)

"ck" (as in lick)

We are also learning to read the words

"the" "two" "and"

26th November 2007

"e" (as in leg)

"u" (as in mug)

"r" (as in rat)

We are also learning to read the words

"to" "the" "and"

3rd December 2007

"h" (as in hen)

"b" (as in bat)

"f" (as in fun)

"ff" (as in puff)

"l" (as in lid)

"ll" (as in doll)

"ss" (as in fuss)

We are also learning to read the words

                    "no" "go" "I"

10th December 2007

Please revise all previously learnt sounds-

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ,ff

l,ll ss

Please also revise these tricky words

"the" "go" "to" "no"

17th December 2007

Please revise all previously learnt sounds-

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ,ff