Phonics

Question 1

Define Phoneme

Answer 1

The smallest unit of sound

Question 2

Define Grapheme

Answer 2

A letter/pair or group of letters that represent a phoneme in writing

Question 3

Define Consonant Diagraphs

Answer 3

Two consonant that make one phoneme (ch, sh, ff, zz)

Question 4

Define Consonant

Answer 4

Letters representing a speech sound
/ng/ ring

Question 5

Consonant trigrams

Answer 5

Three consonants that make one phoneme
/j/ nudge

Question 6

Define Vowel Diagraph

Answer 6

Two letters, at least one of which is a vowel, that make one phoneme

Question 7

Define Trigragh

Answer 7

Three letters that make one phoneme

Question 8

Semantic cues for information

Answer 8

Considering the plausible meaning of words and sentences that surround the unknown word
E.g., ‘The day was very ____’

Question 9

Syntactic cues

Answer 9

Relying on the standard word order and sentence structure
E.g., ‘The boy rode the ____ bike’

Question 10

Subordination

Answer 10

Use of conjunctions to connect one dependent clause to an independent clause
E.g., ‘Because she got home late, she missed her dinner’
Pattern: because dependent clause, independent clause

Question 11

Meaningful Print

Answer 11

Children are surrounded by literacy from their earliest years in which communicate messages through continually being given demonstrations of people using print (packaging, screen, clothes)