What is Phonics? So what is phonics? What do all these words actually mean? phonics phonograms phonemes phonemic awareness grapheme In this section we will also be looking at: The history of phonics The different stages of learning to read Many of you have probably heard of phonics, but I will go one step further…

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Uh! What’s the Schwa Phonics Sound? When I first read about the schwa phonics sound – I thought “uh? – What on earth is all this about! Have I missed something?” So I did my usual extensive phonics research with books and websites and discovered that ‘schwa’ is actually the name given to one of…

Here we look at the difference between the short and long vowel markings. Short Vowel: The diacritical mark ˘ above a short vowel is called a ‘breve’ (pronounced ‘breeve’). Breve means ‘short or brief’ in Latin, hence why it is used to indicate a short vowel! Examples of short vowels are: (notice how the vowel…

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