PHONICS - SYSTEMATIC SYNTHETIC PHONICS (SSP) Flashcards
What is SSP?
Skill of segmentation and blending
- Knowledge of the alphabetic code to enable world reading and spelling
How many phonemes are there?
44
What is a phoneme?
Smallest unit of a sound in a word
What is a grapheme?
Written/ visual representation of a phoneme which can be made up of one or more letters
What is a digraph?
2 letters representing 1 phoneme
e.g ch- ur- ch
What is a consonant digraph?
2 consonants together make one sound
Give an example of a consonant digraph
shop = s h o p throat = th r oa t
What is a vowel digraph ?
2 letters making a single sound
Give an example of a vowel digraph
ai = r - ai- n ea = l - ea- f ee = f - ee- t oa = c - oa - t
What is a trigraph?
3 letters representing 1 phoneme
Give an example of a trigraph
igh = sigh ore = bore air = fair ear = dear are = dare
What is a split vowel digraph?
Two vowels that make the phoneme are split by a consonant
Give an example of a split vowel digraph
c-a-k-e L-i-k-e P-o-l-e
What is segmenting?
Splitting up words fully, in order of spelling
- children know the intended target word, they split it out using graphemes
What is oral segmenting?
Taking the words apart out loud
What is blending?
draw individual sounds together to pronounce a word
What is oral blending?
When children sound the phonemes out and then form a word from the phonemes
What is a grapheme-phoneme correspondence?
Relationships between a sound and the letters used to represents it
What is encoding?
When we work out how to spell a word we break it up or segment it into its phonemes and then identify the appropriate graphemes to represent each phonemes.
