Transcript phonemes - Primary Resources

PHONEMES
• A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a
word.
• Knowing about phonemes is important for spelling.
• A phonemes may be made up of one or more
letters which make one sound.
Notice how the three
phonemes sound the
same.
Two new shoes
Spot the odd one out.
• Look carefully at the words below.
• Can you spot the phoneme that is common to each set?
• Which word doesn’t share the common phoneme?
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tree
rain
know
Boat
feet
pain
seat
away
grew
mail
grow
play
sleep
slap
show
stay
Phoneme Fallout.
• Some of the phonemes have fallen out of the words below.
Can you guess if the missing phoneme is…
oo, ew or ue?
• S oon
threw
• Chew
sch oo l
c l ue
cr ue l
r oo m
knew