Graphophonic Relationships

Question 1

What is Alphabet knowledge?

Answer 1

The concept of a letter / understand what a letter looks like

Recognise and name letters of the alphabet; form letters of the alphabet

Question 2

In order to have alphabet knowledge children must be able to:

Answer 2

1. distinguish the shape of a letter from other letter shapes
2. letter name - recall and recognise the shape of a letter
3. write the shape of the letter with the correct movement
4. recognising and articulating a sound (phoneme) associated with a letter shape
5. letter sound - recall the shape of the letter (or select from a display.

Question 3

What is the Alphabetic Principle?

Answer 3

The understanding that alphabetic letters are used to represent sounds in words

Knowing that a systematic relationship exists between the internal structure of written and spoken words

Question 4

What does the Alphabetic Principle involve?

Answer 4

Knowledge of letters of the alphabet

Understanding relationship between spoken sounds to written language

Understanding that the left-to-right spelling of printed words represents their phonemes from first to last.

Question 5

What are Graphophonics?

Answer 5

Letter/sound relationships

Understanding the relationship between the spoken sounds in English and the symbols (letters) that are used to represent them.

Question 6

Graphophonic understanding is important to be able to:

Answer 6

Encode speech sounds into written symbols

decode written symbols to form speech sounds

begins with learning graphophonics in relation to the encoding and decoding of vc and cvc words

Question 7

Graphophonics is linked to:

Answer 7

Phonemic awareness
The Alphabetic Principle
Recognising and naming letters