Grapheme - A written letter, or combination of written letters that represent a single sound (phoneme), Phonological awareness - The ability to identify and manipulate the sounds of speech, separate from their meaning. Phonological awareness skills include recognising and generating rhyme and identifying syllables., Syllable - A single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word. Syllables usually contain a vowel and accompanying consonants. Sometimes syllables are referred to as the 'beats' of spoken language., Phonics - The relationship between letters and sounds. This word is often mistakenly used to describe the whole structured literacy teaching approach whereas it is actually only one aspect of the approach., Digraph - A combination of two letters that make a single sound in a word. Consonant digraphs include ‘wh’, ‘sh’, ‘ph’ and ‘ch’. Vowel digraphs include ‘ai’, ‘oa’ and ‘oo’. A consonant trigraph has three letters representing one sound (e.g. ‘ght’), Consonant blends - A group of two or three consonants in words that makes a distinct consonant sound, such as bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr, pl, pr, qu, sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tr, and tw,, Etymology - The study of the origins and historical development of words., Heart Word - do not follow a rule for at least one graphe, Orthographic mapping: - It explains how children learn to read words, Alphabetic principle - The concept that letters and letter combinations represent the phonemes (sounds) of spoken language., Closed syllable - A ‘short’ vowel that is followed by one or more consonants., Open syllable - A syllable that ends in a single vowel that is typically a long vowel sound.,

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