What is a Phoneme?
The smallest unit of a word
What is a grapheme?
A letter or a number of lettersthat represent a sound in a word.
What is a digraph?
A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound.
What is Phonics?
It is a method of teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes the relationship between sounds and their corresponding written symbols.
What is the goal of Phonics?
To help students develop the ability to decode unfamiliar words by associating the sounds of spoken language with the letters or letter combinations.
What type of Phonics and program do we use at OLM?
Letters and Sounds/ Synthetic Phonics
How many phases are there in the letters and sounds program?
6
What's the sequence of teaching in a Phonics session?
Revisit and review,Teach,Practise,Apply,Assess learning against criteria
What's assessment in Phonics?
Evaluate a student's understanding and proficiency in recognizing and manipulating phonemes.
What's Phonological Awareness?
It is is the ability to recognize and think about parts of spoken language.
What's Phonemic Awareness?
It is a particular level of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and work with individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken language.
What are the aspects inside Phonological Awareness?
Environmental sounds / Instrumental sounds /. Body percussion / Rhythm and rhyme / Alliteration /Voice sounds /Oral blending and segmenting
