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Knowledge
- Three-consonant blends are a combination of three consonants in which each represents a phoneme sound.
- Digraphs are two letter combination that represents a single phoneme sound in which neither letter represents its usual sound.
- Trigraphs are three letter combinations that represents a single phoneme sound.
- Quadrigraph eigh is a combination of four letters that represents a single phoneme sound.
- Combinations are two letters that frequently appear together and have an associated phoneme.
- Diphthongs are single vowel phonemes that glide in the middle.
- Silent letter combinations are letter combinations in which one or more letters is silent (does not represent a phoneme), but another letter does represent the phoneme.
Skills
- Accurately decode and encode words with three-consonant blends, such as spl-, str-, scr-, squ-.
- Accurately decode and encode words with consonant digraphs, such as th, sh, ch, ck, ph.
- Accurately decode and encode words with consonant trigraphs, such as tch, dge, igh.
- Accurately decode and encode words with combinations, such as er, ir, ar, or.
- Accurately decode and encode words with diphthongs, such as oi oy, ou, ow.
- Accurately decode and encode words with silent letter combinations, such as kn, gn, mb, wr, gh.
Understanding
- Some words have special combinations of letters that can be decoded and encoded using their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
Vocabulary
- Decode
- Encode
- Three-Consonant blends
- Digraphs
- Trigraphs
- Quadrigraph
- Combinations
- Diphthongs
- Silent letter combinations
