Alphabets with phonic sounds


How parents can teach kids phonics sounds in English?

Hello Parents, K Learning Kids’ exercise is to learn and apply the letters to peruse or spell phonic words in English. In numerous schools start phonics sounds in kindergarten at 3 years old years.

Phonic English words have names, and letters have sounds.

The children are learning the sounds that letters make. Bit by bit, the hints of letters and their elocution are acquainted with the children for simple learning. By this, the children can have an agreeable passage into the universe of Phonics and become acquainted with the words. In this exercise, you can relate the English letter sets to the Hindi letters order. At the point when children learn phonics sound will peruse every one of the 2 or 3 letter mixing words from their books.

Your child can learn phonics sounds using Hindi sounds 

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Vowel Sound

Aa'a' sound as in cat or apple (not in ape or name)
Ee'e' sound as in bed or set ( not in feed or meet)
Ii'i' as in big or sit and ink (not in ice cream)
Oo'o' as in not or God (not in open)
Uu'u' as in but or fun (not in uniform)

Consonant Sound

BbsaysThe sound of 'b' as in bib.
CcsaysThe sound of 'c' as in cat(k) (not the sound of 'c' as in see)
DdsaysThe sound of 'd' as in bad.
Ffsaysthe sound of 'f' as in bluff (place the upper teeth lightly on the lower lip and at the same time force your breath in a steady stream)
GgsaysThe sound of 'g' as in girl or bag.
HhsaysThe sound of 'h' as in hat.
JjsaysThe sound of 'j' as in Raj or jelly.
KksaysThe sound of 'k' as in back.
LlsaysThe sound of 'l' as in ball.
MmsaysThe sound of 'm' as in dam.
NnsaysThe sound of 'n' in fun.
PpsaysThe sound of 'p' as in pup (Close your lips tightly, below them apart with little puffs of breath)
QqsaysकवThe sound of 'q' as in queen.
RrsaysThe sound of 'r' as in rat.
SssaysThe sound fo 's' as in yes (make the hissing sound sss...)
TtsaysThe sound of 't' as on bot.
Vv saysThe final sound of 'v' as in give or five (bite of your lower lip when pronouncing)
WwsaysThe of 'w' as in way (make a circle of the lips to pronounce the first sound)
XxsaysकसThe sound of 'x' as in six (A combined sound fo k and s)
YysaysThe first sound of 'y' as in yes
Zzsaysज़The find sound of 'z' as in jazz.

Download phonics printable take a print & past it in front of kids study table.

Focus on Lesson

  • Children learn and identify the letter sound.
  • They can easily associate letter sound with beginning word sound

Age Group :

  • Kindergarten to 1st grade
  • 3years to 5years

You can take a printout of the phonics sheet & paste it in front of children.

For many children, practicing the ability to recognize sounds in words can make a big difference in how fast they learn to read. 

– Pooja Kapoor

ABC Phonics - 26 Letters and Sounds!

IIntroduce the ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! book with four new letters, key phonics symbols, and sounds every two or three days. Always sing to review previous letters: Take advantage of the musical brain! Spend no more than five minutes engaging the children in active, systematic instruction, then provide at least four short (20-30 second) reviews during the day: before morning recess, lining up for lunch, out on the playground, leaving for the day.!

Spend no more than five minutes engaging the children in active, systematic instruction, then provide at least four short (20-30 second) reviews during the day: before morning recess, lining up for lunch, out on the playground, leaving for the day.

“Let’s practice a, b, c, and d again. a/“a”/ alligator... Now show me your ‘a’ handshape before you go outside.” Check and adjust each child’s fingerspelling—expect accuracy! Then, before lunch time, do another short review of a and b. This time, check that every child can accurately fingerspell the letter “b,” helping children as needed. By afternoon recess, review the song and the letter “c. ” Expect all children to sing, sign, and fingerspell a, b, c, and d by the end of the day. Motivate the children and track progress: “We already know 4 letters and sounds. Wow―let’s do them again!”

Remind the children to show their parents how much they have learned and to keep practicing at home every night until they become ABC Phonics experts!

Give each family a framed and laminated copy of the Free Family ABC Wall Chart. Attach magnets on the back for refrigerator art. Communicate the importance of learning these foundation skills early on, encouraging families to weave daily practice into their routines.

Use the free ABC Phonics instructional videos in the classroom. These five quality videos are generously provided by our publisher, Sign2Me, and can also be accessed on our website ABC Phonics page. Show one ABC Phonics video at your back-to-school night and encourage parents to use all of them!

Raise your expectations. Create a compelling challenge for all learners: “We are going to learn all 26 letters and sounds in 20 days. “We can learn fast and then we will have a celebration!”

Immerse the children in consistent images from the ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! program throughout the classroom: wall charts, miniature charts in literacy centers, posters in the hall, and copies of the book in your library. Fingerspell and refer to the key phonics images throughout the day, across the curriculum. Peruse our ABC Phonics page for classroom photos.

Challenge children to demonstrate A to Z mastery as soon as the first child is ready. Let each child sing, sign, and perform the ABC Phonics signs using the instrumental version on the CD for accompaniment. These children will motivate others! Present each new expert with the ABC Phonics Certificate (free download) or a specially designed ABC Champ badge or crown. While a child is performing for the class, the other children can silently fingerspell along. Make instructional time count!

Teach children to fingerspell their names and the names of their classmates. Sing, sign, spell, read, and write high-frequency “heart words.”

Use volunteers or 4th grade buddies to help harder-to-accelerate students: Trace over the letters while saying the name and sound. Play games with large ABC cards or miniature flash cards. Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice makes permanent so practice accurately! 

Send loaner copies of the ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! book home for children to share. These books will later be used as guided reading materials: more experienced readers will enjoy reading the descriptions of each sign.

Refer to copies of the free miniature ABC Phonics Chart and the laminated Family Chart in the writing centers and literacy play centers. Keep planting the expectation: “Soon you’ll know all of these letters and sounds!”

See the ABC Phonics page for more instructional details, parent letters, informative articles and free ABC Phonics downloads.


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High Expectations, Focus and Self-Regulation

Children develop focus and self-regulation. When I asked some master kindergarten teachers if they would challenge their children to learn 26 letters and sounds in 20 school days, Winter Curry quickly responded, “We’ll do it! I will simply let the parents know how important it is to make this their September Family Learning Project.” She began brainstorming how she could fit more 20-30 second review sessions into the day. She already had a link to the instructional videos directly from her class website and planned to give each family a laminated ABC Phonics Chart (with magnetic tape attached) for refrigerator art!

Becky Leber shared tips on her joyful accelerated approach to ABC and Phonics Immersion.  
  • At the fall Parent Orientation (before school starts) she introduced the parents to ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign and Read! by showing them one of the 5 free instructional videos.
  • Then she actually took parents on a “computer walk” showing them exactly how to access the ABC Phonics page.
  • She gave families the ABC chart and enlisted their commitment to daily practice at home.
  • In the classroom, Becky sang the whole song all the way through every day and taught four new letters at a time. Her children helped each other practice. Some years, the children performed the song for the whole school. When kindergarten classes are large, two children perform together to demonstrate mastery. (Use track 4 of the instructional version of the accompanying ABC Phonics music CD.)
  • With children who do not easily learn every letter and sound, her Title I school provides RTI intervention.

We applaud Head Start programs and Title I schools that include the Family Reference Chart and links to video clips of ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! with spring registration. When families practice all summer we see amazing results come September in kindergarten.

Turtle” is a favorite sign: Your children will delight in learning ABC Phonics skills with American Sign Language. We promise! –N.E.

Photos from ABC Phonics: Sign, Sign, Read! by Nellie Edge and Sign2Me Early Learning© 2010.


Your ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! program is the foundation for teaching phonemic awareness and phonics skills. Use the ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! Program for mastery of phonemic awareness skills.

  • Emphasize beginning sounds and accurate fingerspelling
  • Clap and count the syllables for each key phonics symbol
  • Listen and identify ending sounds
  • Play with rhymes (There are 9 words that make great rhymes!)
  • Stretch out words and count phonemes
  • Segment and blend consonant vowel consonant (CVC) words

The ultimate result of strong phonemic awareness skills is to be able to write each key phonics symbol a-z, listening for sounds and encoding sounds to print! Students will then be able to fearlessly tackle any unknown word.


Why not take the challenge?


20 days to 26 letters and sounds!
This approach to joyful accelerated literacy connects
ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! and the Common Core Standards.

Common Core is, after all, a call for accelerating students’ literacy development. …learners achieve when they are working toward crystal clear and ambitious goals that they can envision, and when they receive feedback in the form of medals and mission… become a school where professionalism involves recognizing implementing and improving upon high-impact teaching practices.

Excerpts from Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Learning by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman. Heinemann, 2012.


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letters and sounds in Russian (with audio)

4Mar 03/21/2022

What letters and sounds are there in Russian? Which letters represent which sounds? What is the difference between soft and hard consonants? When is a consonant hard and when is it soft? Why do we need soft (b) and hard signs (b)?

Want to find answers to all these questions? Then read on!

Below you will find an interactive Russian alphabet with audio. For each letter [in square brackets], the sounds that it can stand for are indicated, as well as examples of words with this letter. nine0013

And here, for sure, two questions will immediately appear to you:

№1 Why do some letters have two sounds?

This is a feature of the Russian language. Some letters can represent two different sounds: a hard and a soft consonant. To clearly demonstrate this principle, I specially selected two examples for such letters: one with a hard consonant, and the other with a soft consonant.

№2 Why are no sounds shown for 'ь' and 'ъ'?

These are soft and hard marks. By themselves, they do not represent any sounds. They show us how to read the previous consonant: a consonant before a hard sign will be hard, and a consonant before a soft sign will be soft. nine0013

Also, sometimes we need to separate a consonant from a vowel, and for this we will write one of these signs between them. This is how we distinguish, for example, the words “seed” [s′ém′ʌ] and “family” [s′im′jʌ́].

Now, when you listen to the audio, pay attention to these pronunciation features.

But how do you know when a consonant is hard and when soft?

Very easy! You need to look at the next letter.

  • Before with a firm sign (b) , before other consonants and before the vowels A , O , in , E, Consistent sound - Twiro -firm .
  • Before Soft sign (b) and before the vowels I , ё , U E , and Consistent sound -

    Now let's see what happens when we add a consonant to them. Take for example the syllable dya :

    dya = d+i = d+d+a = d d +a = d′+a

    See? This [th]-component makes the consonant soft!

    Finally, let's move from theory to practice! Try to read these words. Do you understand them?

    Pineapple, vase, banana, guitar, rocket, moon, mom, dad, hello, music, matryoshka, hat, lamp, movie, coffee, tea, lemon, chair, Saturday, dollar, ruble, Italy, America, Spain . nine0013

    Were you able to read it? Did you understand all the words? (You can test yourself on the audio here).

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    Sounds and letters of the Russian language - scheme, table, transcription

    0167 • What is sound?
    • What sounds are there?
    • How are sounds pronounced?
    • Transcription of the word
    • Color scheme

    Sounds belong to the phonetics section. The study of sounds is included in any school curriculum in the Russian language. Acquaintance with sounds and their main characteristics occurs in the lower grades. A more detailed study of sounds with complex examples and nuances takes place in middle and high school. This page provides only basic knowledge of the sounds of the Russian language in a compressed form. If you need to study the device of the speech apparatus, the tonality of sounds, articulation, acoustic components and other aspects that are beyond the scope of the modern school curriculum, refer to specialized textbooks and textbooks on phonetics. nine0013

    What is sound?

    Sound, like words and sentences, is the basic unit of language. However, the sound does not express any meaning, but reflects the sound of the word. Thanks to this, we distinguish words from each other. Words differ in the number of sounds (port - sport, crow - funnel), set of sounds (lemon - estuary, cat - mouse), sequence of sounds (nose - dream, bush - knock) up to a complete mismatch of sounds (boat - boat, forest - park ).

    What sounds are there?

    In Russian, sounds are divided into vowels and consonants. There are 33 letters and 42 sounds in Russian: 6 vowels, 36 consonants, 2 letters (ь, ъ) do not indicate a sound. The discrepancy in the number of letters and sounds (not counting b and b) is due to the fact that there are 6 sounds for 10 vowels, 36 sounds for 21 consonants (if we take into account all combinations of consonant sounds deaf / voiced, soft / hard). On the letter, the sound is indicated in square brackets.
    There are no sounds: [e], [e], [yu], [i], [b], [b], [g '], [w '], [c '], [th], [h ], [sch]. nine0013 Scheme 1. Letters and sounds of the Russian language. Scheme 1.1. Letters and sounds of the Russian language. Scheme 1.2. Vowels and sounds of the Russian language. Scheme 1.3. Consonants and sounds of the Russian language. Scheme 1.4. Russian letters that do not represent sounds.

    How are sounds pronounced?

    We pronounce sounds while exhaling (only in the case of the interjection “a-a-a”, expressing fear, the sound is pronounced while inhaling. ). The division of sounds into vowels and consonants is related to how a person pronounces them. Vowel sounds are pronounced by the voice due to the exhaled air passing through the tense vocal cords and freely exiting through the mouth. Consonant sounds consist of noise or a combination of voice and noise due to the fact that the exhaled air meets an obstacle in its path in the form of a bow or teeth. Vowel sounds are pronounced loudly, consonant sounds are muffled. A person is able to sing vowel sounds with his voice (exhaled air), raising or lowering the timbre. Consonant sounds cannot be sung, they are pronounced equally muffled. Hard and soft signs do not represent sounds. They cannot be pronounced as an independent sound. When pronouncing a word, they affect the consonant in front of them, make it soft or hard. nine0013

    Transcription of a word

    Transcription of a word is a recording of sounds in a word, that is, in fact, a record of how the word is pronounced correctly. Sounds are enclosed in square brackets. Compare: a is a letter, [a] is a sound. The softness of consonants is indicated by an apostrophe: p - letter, [p] - hard sound, [p '] - soft sound. Voiced and voiceless consonants are not marked in writing. The transcription of the word is written in square brackets. Examples: door → [dv'er '], thorn → [kal'uch'ka]. Sometimes stress is indicated in transcription - an apostrophe before a vowel stressed sound. nine0013

    There is no clear correspondence between letters and sounds. In the Russian language, there are many cases of substitution of vowel sounds depending on the place of stress of a word, substitution of consonants or dropping out of consonant sounds in certain combinations. When compiling a transcription of a word, the rules of phonetics are taken into account.

    Color scheme

    In phonetic analysis, words are sometimes drawn with color schemes: letters are painted with different colors depending on what sound they mean. Colors reflect the phonetic characteristics of sounds and help you visualize how a word is pronounced and what sounds it consists of. nine0013

    All vowels (stressed and unstressed) are marked with a red background. Iotated vowels are marked green-red: green means a soft consonant sound [y ‘], red means the vowel following it. Consonants with solid sounds are colored blue. Consonants with soft sounds are colored green. Soft and hard signs are painted in gray or not painted at all.

    Vowels0204
    Consistent CU zh zh zhb z k l m hhhhh
    b, b b

    - vowel, vowel, vowel, vowel. - hard consonant, - soft consonant, - soft or hard consonant, - does not mean a sound.

    The blue-green color is not used in the schemes for phonetic analysis, since a consonant cannot be both soft and hard at the same time. The blue-green color in the table above is only used to show that the sound can be either soft or hard.


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