Glossary

A clause that is not placed in the sentence in such a way that it confuses the intended meaning. I have a muffin that Mum baked in my lunchbox.

A process of efficient word recognition in which readers use knowledge of the relationship between letters and sounds to work out how to say and read written words.

Two letters that represent a single sound:

  • vowel digraphs have two vowels (for example, ‘oo’, ‘ea’)
  • consonant digraphs have two consonants (for example, ‘sh’, ‘th’)
  • vowel/consonant digraphs have one vowel and one consonant (for example, ‘er’, ‘ow’)