1. 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

2. 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? treefeet grewsleep rainpain mailslap knowseat growshow Boat away playstay

3. 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? Snthr c lr m Chsch l cr l kn ooewueoo ewooueew