Graphemes and phonemes

When first learning about teaching phonics it can be challenging to wrap your head around how it all works. For teachers who are used to teaching ...

As you know when the letter w placed at the end of a word, it is pronounced like 'oo' in the words book and could as seen on the chart below.It can be shown as /w/ or /ʊ/ too in dictionaries. I ...

many of us don't know the difference between phonemes and graphemes. we might think that phonemes can be expressed through the normal letters

What's the difference between phonemes and graphemes? My blog post & YouTube video can help you understand the difference and why it matters.

Learn what the terms 'phoneme,' 'grapheme' and 'morpheme' mean, their importance in the field of literacy, and get practical teaching tips.

teach your child how to read and write (spell) through the easy jolly phonics programme. You will find all the resources you need.

Phonics Desk Charts - One desk chart each for vowel and consonant sound/phoneme with associated letter patterns /graphemes.

Song chants to reinforce teaching graphemes from the sound wall. Perfect for interactive phoneme and grapheme daily practice.

Written English is a code for speech. Spoken English has approximately 44 speech sounds that combine to make thousands of words but we only have 26 letters with which to represent them in writing. The individual speech sounds that make up words are called phonemes. The individual letters or groups of letters that represent the individual speech […]