Leo says blending means breaking a word into sounds to spell. Is he right?
Phonics has its own special words. These words help you talk about sounds and letters.
A phoneme is one sound, like the first sound in 'sun'. A grapheme is the letter or letters that show that sound.
Mia wants to spell 'sun'. She segments it into three sounds: s, u, n. Then she writes s, u, n as letters.
A digraph is two letters that make one sound. Say 'sh' in 'ship'. It makes one soft sound.
Phonics words like phoneme, blend, and segment describe sounds and letters.