Grade 1 Phonics

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• Phonics is the study of the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds (phonemes) they represent in written language[2][8].
• Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, and it is entirely oral[2].
• Phonological awareness is a broader term covering all spoken language sounds, including syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes, and serves as the building block for reading[1][4].
• The alphabetic principle is the concept that letters represent the sounds of spoken language in an organized and predictable way[2][7].
• Synthetic phonics teaches children to convert letter combinations into sounds and then blend those sounds to form recognizable words[2].
• First graders learn to distinguish between long and short vowel sounds in single-syllable words[1].
• Blending is the process of orally combining individual sounds, such as /n/ /e/ /st/, to create a word like 'nest'[1][3].
• Onset-rime instruction teaches children to identify the sound before the first vowel (onset) and the remaining part of the word (rime) in one-syllable words[2].
• Analytic phonics teaches children to analyze letter-sound relationships in previously learned words rather than pronouncing sounds in isolation[2].
• Segmenting is the skill of breaking spoken words into their individual phonemes for the purpose of spelling or decoding[1][2].
• CVC words are simple three-letter words with a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern, such as 'pop', 'tag', and 'sit', which are used to teach short vowels[3][5].
• Consonant blends are two or more consonants placed together where each sound is heard, such as in the word 'nest' when blending /n/ and /e/[1][3].