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What is a grapheme?

Posted on 3rd September 201116th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged difference between phoneme and grapheme, graphemes, phoneme, phonemes, what is a grapheme3 Comments

A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme) in a word. Another way to explain it is to say that a grapheme is a letter or letters that spell a sound in a word.

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.