Glossary of key words used in phonics

CVC

          Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words e.g. cat, pin

CVCC

CCVC

          Consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant words e.g. milk, belt

          Consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant words e.g. clap, from

grapheme

           A visual representation of a sound this can be a single letter or a group of letters.

digraph

           
          2 letters making 1 sound e.g. ai, sh

trigraph

           3 letters making 1 sound e.g. igh, air

split digraph

          When the digraph has been separated by other letters e.g. name

blending

          Blending is the skill of joining sounds together to read words. We teach children to
          say the sounds and blend them together.

segmenting

          The opposite to blending! Children say the individual sounds in a word to spell it.

sound buttons

           
           We represent a single sound with a dot underneath and a digraph/ trigraph is
           represented with a line. e.g.  cat      tree

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