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  Morphology , Etymology , Phonology Although this lesson is focused on developing phonological understanding;  as with all word building, morphology must provide the structural framework for any phonological learning. The focal point of the phonological learning continues to be based on meaning: the structure of words; how words are related in meaning and then finally the sounds that make sense to the spelling . Understanding how English phonemes can be  represented by different  graphemes. This phonological learning journey started with the phoneme / f / .  Our inquiry initially focused on investigating the three different graphemes  that represent /f / in spelling. the single letter grapheme <f> the digraph <ph> the trigraph <ugh> Setting the Scene: Where are we Headed? This lesson began with a review of the meaning of the slash brackets / / and the angle < > brackets.  ( I have regularly introduced these brackets to young children to indicate whether we ar