Articles tagged with: vowel digraph

What is…a vowel digraph?

Posted on 30th October 202323rd October 2023 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read and tagged vowel digraph, what is a vowel digraph?Leave a Comment

In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** A vowel digraph is a two-letter spelling that represents a […]

What is…a digraph?

Posted on 11th September 20234th September 2023 in Learning to Read and tagged consonant digraphs, digraphs, split digraphs, vowel digraphLeave a Comment

In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** A digraph is a two-letter spelling for a sound of […]

What is a phoneme?

Posted on 17th January 201121st May 2024 in Synthetic Phonics and tagged blending, consonant digraph, digraphs, explain phoneme, high-frequency words, igh, phoneme definition, segmenting, trigraphs, vowel digraph, what are adjacent consonants?, what is a consonant digraph?, what is a digraph?, what is a grapheme, what is a phoneme?, what is a trigraph?, what is a vowel digraph?, what is blending?5 Comments

Now that everyone is talking ‘Synthetic Phonics speak’, and it seems like Michael Gove will continue to do so, it may be a good time to clarify some of the terms that are being used.