Consonants for kindergarten
Beginning Consonant Sounds in English - Learning Consonants
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The letters of the alphabet represent sounds that make up words. In order to read, your child needs to be able to identify these sounds.
Emerging readers practice recognizing beginning consonant sounds by listening to and then reading words and stories that have beginning consonants. For many children, practicing the ability to recognize sounds in words can make a big difference in how fast they learn to read.
Designed to help your child learn consonant sounds, ABCmouse provides many fun and interactive activities to develop their literacy skills, including the following: • Cutout Puzzles • Read-Aloud Books • Consonant Sound Games • Word-Building Activities • Alphabet Sound Books
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Consonants vs. Vowels
The alphabet is made up of 26 letters: 5 vowels and 21 consonants.
In English, vowels are the letters a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. Consonants are all the other letters in the alphabet that are not vowels, such as b, d, g, n, r, s, and t.
Consonant sounds are made by blocking air using your teeth, tongue, or lips. For example, say the beginning consonant sound in the word pad—“puh.” Your lips come together to block air to make the sound.
ABCmouse’s early childhood and elementary curriculum contains many activities and games designed to help your child practice consonant sounds.
Activities and songs on ABCmouse, such as “The Letter B Song,” help your child learn the difference between vowel sounds and consonant sounds, which is a key skill for beginning readers.
List of Consonants and Their Sounds
Placeholder paragraph Learning consonant sounds is important to sounding out and decoding words. Once your child knows these sounds, he or she can read and decode words, starting with beginning consonant sounds.
Fourteen consonants have only one sound: B, F, H, J, K, L M, N, P, R, T, V, W, and Z.
However, seven consonants can have more than one sound: C, G, D, S, Y, and X. The letter C, for example, can sound like an S (cell) or a K (cat). The letter G can make the sounds as in goat and gel.
It’s important for beginning readers to understand that some consonants make more than one sound. ABCmouse games and videos model these sounds accurately so that your child can start to learn, read, and spell sounds. Reading aloud with ABCmouse’s books will also help your child practice all types of consonant sounds.
Types of Consonant Sounds
Say the sound for the letter P, “puh.” Your lips comes together to block air to make the sound. Consonants are classified according to how they are produced—the type of consonant sound depends on how you use your mouth, teeth, and lips and how you move air when you make the sound.
ABCmouse’s early childhood and elementary curriculum contains many activities and games designed to help your child practice proper mouth and tongue formation when sounding out beginning consonant sounds.
Activities on ABCmouse, such as “First Letter in Line,” help your child listen for and use beginning consonant sounds. The sounds are isolated and then blended to show how letters work to build sounds and words.
Places of Articulation
Articulation is the act of making clear and distinct sounds. You make the sound of the letters P, B, and N by bringing your lips together.
Your lips are one place of articulation. Some other places are
• your lower lip and your upper teeth: F and V.
• the tip of your tongue on your teeth: T, D, N, S, Z, and L.
• in the back of the mouth at the palate: K and G (when G makes the sound as in go).
• in the throat: H.
ABCmouse has many activities and books that will help your child hear different beginning consonant sounds, such as “Alphabet Sounds at the Zoo.”
Manner of Articulation
Consonant sounds have different manners, or ways, of articulation. When you make the sound of the letter S, for example, you put your tongue toward your teeth. Then, you push air through the opening to make the sound.
ABCmouse provides entertaining interactions for your child to hear articulation of types of consonant sounds, such as the book series Alphabet Sounds on the Farm.
Voiced vs. Unvoiced
When speaking, you use your vocal cords to make a voiced consonant sound. An unvoiced consonant sound doesn’t need your vocal cords.
Lightly place a finger on your throat when you make a consonant sound. If you feel vibrations, the consonant is a voiced sound. Dog, go, and man start with voiced consonant sounds.
Unvoiced consonants will not make your throat vibrate. Fish, paw, and song have beginning unvoiced consonant sounds.
Your child can listen to and practice voiced and unvoiced beginning consonant sounds through ABCmouse’s variety of activities, including “Ring the Bell.”
Learning Consonant Sounds with ABCmouse
Learning consonants with ABCmouse can be engaging for children—a variety of games, songs, puzzles, and activities allow many opportunities for practice with consonant sounds.
Repetitive practice and repeated exposure is aimed at allowing children to develop automaticity, or the ability to automatically recognize words while reading.
There are many fun activities for learning consonant sounds featured in the ABCmouse curriculum, including the following: • Word Search Games • Spelling Cutout Puzzles • First Letter in Line • Ring the Bell • Alphabet Sounds on the Farm
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Consonant Facts for Kids
Kids Encyclopedia Facts
For "consonant" in a musical sense see Consonance and dissonance
All the letters in the alphabet are either consonants or vowels. A consonant is a speech sound in which the air is at least partly blocked, and any letter which represents this. Consonants may come singily (by themselves) or in clusters (two or more together), but must be connected to a vowel to form a syllable.
Notice that the consonant (C) and vowel (V) notation does NOT match the letters of English spelling in a one-to-one relationship (e.
g. 'th' is one sound), but rather individual sounds.
Words with single consonants include:
- Go (CV), which has one consonant and one vowel in that order
- On (VC), which has one vowel and one consonant in that order
- Ton (CVC), which has a consonant, a vowel, and another consonant in that order
Words with consonant clusters include:
- Pro (CCV), which has two consonants in-a-row and one vowel afterwards
- Old (VCC), which has one vowel and two consonants in-a-row afterwards
- Spree (CCCV), which has three consonants in-a-row and one vowel afterwards
- Arcs (VCCC), which has one vowel and three consonants in-a-row afterwards
- Strengths (CCCVCCCCC), which has three consonants in-a-row, one vowel afterwards, and finally five consonants in a row
Consonants have friction when they are spoken, mostly using the position of the tongue against the lips, teeth and roof of the mouth.
b and p are plosives, using the lips to produce a tiny sharp sound. Phonetics texts give more details, with diagrams. Consonants may be voiced or unvoiced. The th in the is voiced, but in breath is not.
- There are 21 consonant letters in English, for 24 consonant sounds in most English accents.p242 Because of the history of the English language, there is no neat one-to-one relationship between letter and sound. th and ch each stand for a single sound, and x in fox stands for two sounds (ks). All these letters are consonants:
- B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, (sometimes Y), and Z. "Y" is often used as a consonant, but it is sometimes used as a vowel. For example, in the word yellow, y is a consonant. But in the word happy, y is a vowel.
- The rest of the letters of the alphabet are called vowels. Vowels are underdone, for there are about 20 vowel sounds in most English accents.
p237 The vowels are:
- A, E, I, O, U (and sometimes Y)
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What are letters and sounds? - Kindergarten No. 220 JSC Russian Railways
Usually parents say that the child does not pronounce some letters! Unfortunately, parents do not always understand the difference between such concepts as “sound” and “letter”. These terms must not be mixed!
Sound is the smallest, indivisible unit of the speech stream perceived by the ear. There are 42 speech sounds in Russian.
The letters are graphic characters that represent speech sounds when writing. There are 33 letters in total.
We pronounce and hear sounds, we see and write letters .
For parents of children of primary and secondary preschool age, is enough if the baby remembers that the letter stands for the sound "P" and learns it like "P" and not "er", "L" and not "el" ”, “Sh”, not “sha”, etc.
Parents, older preschoolers and first graders need to know much more about sounds and letters.
Sounds are divided into vowels and consonants.
Vowels - when they are pronounced, the air in the mouth passes freely without encountering obstacles. There are 10 vowels in Russian ( a, y, o, e, s, e, e. i, yu, and). There are only 6 vowels - [a], [o], [y], [i], [s], [e]. The fact is that the vowels e, e. yu, i in some positions denote 2 sounds:
e - [y'o], e - [y'e], y - [y'y], i - [y'a].
Vowel sounds are indicated by a red circle. Vowel sounds are neither hard and soft, nor voiced and deaf A vowel can be stressed or unstressed.
Vowels form a syllable. There are as many syllables in a word as there are vowels.
Consonants sounds - when they are pronounced, the air in the mouth meets barriers formed by the tongue, teeth or lips.
Consonants are :
- hard - are pronounced hard. Marked with a blue circle. For example: [p], [k], [d], etc.;
- soft - soft. Marked with a green circle.
For example: [p']= (p), [k']= (k), [d']= (d).
Most consonants have a pair of hardness-softness. For example: [b] - [b '], [t] - [t '], [l] - [l '], etc.
But there are consonant sounds that do not have a pair of hardness-softness. They are either always hard or always soft:
- always hard consonants - [w], [g], [c];
- always soft consonants - [h'], [u'], [y'];
- voiced consonants - pronounced with voice.
For example: [l], [p],. [d], [m], etc. To determine the voicedness, you need to put your hand to the "neck" and listen if there is a "bell".
- voiceless consonants - pronounced without voice.
For example: [f], [x] [s], [p], etc.
But there are consonant sounds that do not have a pair of sonority - deafness. They are either always deaf or always voiced:
- always voiced - [th], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n'], [p], [p'];
- always deaf - [x], [x'], [c], [h'], [u'].
It is necessary to clearly know and distinguish sounds and letters!
Sound analysis of the word - Kindergarten "Annushka", Naryan-Mar
Consultation for parents on preparing children for literacy
"Sound analysis of the word".
Hello, dear parents of ! I propose to talk about preparing children for literacy training , namely, about conducting sound analysis of words .
Written speech is formed on the basis of oral speech. And the first steps to learning to read and write should not be familiarity with letters, but mastery of the sound system of the language .
Each of us will smile, remembering the "folk" rule of the Russian language: "as it sounds, is spelled" . Indeed, if a child does not pronounce the sound correctly , it is hardly worth counting on the fact that he will write it correctly in a notebook in the near future.
It is necessary to pay attention not only to the correct articulation of the sound, but and to the child's ability to isolate, that is, to hear sounds in the word .
This skill is developed in the course of the systematic work of both teachers in kindergarten and Parents at home in such games as: “What are the first Sound in word ” , “Choose Word ” , “Catch Sound ” , “Determine the position of Sound in Word of ” , "Find a place for the picture" etc.
Dear parents, remember:
1. Sound - we hear and pronounce.
2. We write and read letters.
3. Sounds can be vowels and consonants.
Vowel sounds can be sung with the voice, while the air coming out of the mouth is not obstructed. Consonant sounds - sounds that cannot be sung, because. the air coming out of the mouth during their pronunciation meets a barrier.
There are six vowels: A, U, O, I, E, S
Ten vowels: A, U, O, I, E, S - correspond to sounds and four iotated, which denote two sounds: Ya-ya, Yu-yu, Ye-ye, Yo-yo.
Vowel sounds are marked in red on the diagram.
Consonants are soft and hard.
Always hard consonants: Zh, Sh, Ts.
Always soft consonants: Y, Ch, Shch.
Teaching children the sound analysis of words begins with determining the sequence of sounds in the word : you need to highlight this sequence by repeatedly pronouncing the word with intonation highlighting each sound .
So, when analyzing the word "BEETLE" , the child must pronounce it three times: "ZhZhuk" , "ZhuUk" , "Beetle" .
So that the child can to analyze some phenomenon , it should be understandable, materially represented.
Let's draw a diagram of the sound composition of the word : in the word "house" three sounds - draw three cells. And we will give the child this card: a house is drawn on it, so that it is clear which word we will parse , and under the house - a diagram of this word : the child already knows that words consist of sounds .
We show him that the cells under the picture tell how many sounds are in the word . "How many cells?" - "Three". - "And how many sounds are in the word ?" - "Also three." - "Let's look for these sounds .
Say the word house so so that I hear the first sound in it." Our child already knows how to do this - he learned at the first stage of training . "d-house," the baby says diligently. - "What is the first sound ?" - "D". - "Very good! Let's close the first cell with a chip, it will be what sound ?" - "D".
Any material as chips: cut squares from white cardboard or take an old mosaic and select white or yellow elements from it. Do not take red, blue, green - they will still be needed.
So, in front of the child is a diagram of the sound composition of the word "house" in which the first cell is already closed. You can move on.
"Let's now say word "house" so as to hear the second sound in it, the first d - we already know.
scheme of the sound composition of the word will help: you need to pronounce the word and at the same time move your finger along the scheme and stop it for a long time on the second cell. "What is the second sound in this word ?" - "Oh!" - "Great! Let's designate this sound with a chip !" The child takes exactly the same chip as the first one and puts it on the second cell. . Let's find the last sound in this word . Say the word "house" so that the last sound is heard.0005 words and say : "home-m-m". "What is the last sound in the word house-mm ?" - "Mm," the child answers and puts the last, third chip on the diagram.
Here is the first sound analysis of the word .
It would be nice to repeat it again. But how? Remove chips and start over? It's not fun for a kid! No, it's better to play the game "Who is attentive.
" “And now,” you say, “I will call the sound , and you will remove its designation from the diagram. Let's see how attentive you are. Please remove the designation sound "d " (blue chip)
For this type of analysis the child is offered words of three sounds : poppy, house, cheese, cat, whale, ball, beetle, onion, forest, cancer.
When studying with a child, you need to remember all the time: we teach him the sound analysis of words , we teach him to listen to the word , to hear sounds , its components. Therefore, the child should call sounds like , as they are heard in word .
This type of work with sounds is especially important for children with speech disorders. If you see that the child does not cope with sound analysis of the word , then return to games for the development of phonemic hearing.
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