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Technical Vocabulary

Phoneme - a sound as it is said.

 

Grapheme - a sound that is written.

 

Digraph– Two letters that work together to make the same sound, e.g. ch as in chicken.

 

Trigraph - Three letters that work together to make the same sound, e.g. igh as in high.

 

Split digraph - Two letters that work together to make the same sound, separated by another

letter, e.g. a-e as in bake.

 

Blending- blending letter sounds together.

 

Sounding out- breaking down sounds within a word, e.g. c-a-t

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