See also cue-systems, graphemes, phonics, phonemes, phonological awareness This cue-system helps young readers combine phonic and graphic knowledge in decoding text. To help, teachers need to understand the principles. These include knowing that:...

Distinctive unit of a writing system. Variants of any given grapheme are called allographs. In general, graphemes are considered the smallest distinctive units of a writing system. In alphabetic writing systems, graphemes are a written approximation of...

(from Greek, graphema: something written) A grapheme is the smallest unit of a written LANGUAGE. In English, these are of course the letters of the alphabet; see PHONEME;...

In typography, a grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems. In a phonemic...