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?

• tree feet grew sleep• rain pain mail slap• know seat grow show• Boat away play 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 n thr c l r m

• Ch sch l cr l kn

oo ew ue oo

ew oo ue ew