An Introduction to Phonics:

your child learns to read using phonics all words are made up of individual sounds phonemes are the sounds you can hear in a word duh Oh gah dog to give you a brief explanation of the English language there are 44 sounds but there are only 26 letters this makes it one of the hardest languages to learn we learn to read by sounding out words phonetically by matching sounds with letters or groups of letters Agri theme is a written symbol that represents a is a written symbol that represents a sound a phoneme this could be a single letter or a sequence of letters so when the child says the sound this is a phoneme but when they write the letter this is a grapheme a digraph is two letters making one sound a trigraph is three letters making one sound a split digraph is two letters making one sound with a sound in between on the screen you will see some examples

as you can see they all make the same sound better spelt very differently there are around 150 ways to spell the 44 sounds and this is why I learning to read can be tricky for our children firstly ensure your child knows the pure sounds ah bah blend in helps your child to identify and hear sounds in words accelerating their ability to read words at home you can practice by sounding out some simple instructions