Literacy

English at Kismet Park 

Here at Kismet, we teach students from Foundation through to Year 6 the importance of knowing speech sounds, how to represent them through spelling and how to read them through reading. This process is developmental and is included in our English teaching and learning programs. We have provided you with some terminology that students learn here at Kismet and hope that it helps you with your understanding and how to support your child at home.

Terminology you may hear your child say at home, but not be familiar with yourself:

Phoneme - speech sounds

Grapheme - is a written symbol (letters of the English alphabet) that represents sounds.

Graph - one letter that makes one sound eg. /c/a/t/ has three graphs

Digraph - a combination of two letters that make one sound eg. /ea/ in the word /ea/t/

Trigraph - a combination of three letters that make one sound eg. /igh/ in /n/igh/t/

Activity: Sit with your child and have them share which graphemes are a graph or a digraph.