CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes – e.g. ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘ch’, ‘igh in light’. Phonemes can be put together to make words e.g c-a-t. Grapheme – A way of writing down a phoneme e.g. ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘ch’, ‘igh’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Phonemes then are defined as the smallest distinctive or contrastive units of the sound system of a language. By calling a sound distinctive, we refer to its capability of changing the meaning of a word.