Letters sounds phonics
Phonics Songs for Kids to Learn Letter Sounds The Fun Way!
Topic: English Language Arts Grades: Elementary School:
Come on all you letters!
Mastering letter sounds is a major step toward building strong reading and speaking skills. While it’s easy enough to lead your class through a round of phonics, the repetitiveness can get boring—for you and your students. Spice things up by bringing some fun music into your lessons! Don’t have time to go searching for videos and resources? No problem! We’ve put together this list of engaging phonics songs for kids to help them build a strong foundation.
Alphabet Song
Miss Patty combines letter sounds with American sign language in her alphabet song!
The ABC Song for Kids
The Kiboomers teach kids the alphabet with this ABC song featuring a picture for each letter.
Alphabet PE Exercise Song
Learn the alphabet while keeping fit with Miss Linky!
CVC Phonics Song
This video is designed to teach how to read CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words.
ABC Phonics Song
This animated phonics song was developed with speech therapists to form each letter sound correctly.
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Alphabet Boogie Song
“Come on all you letters from A to Z.” What a fun way to learn phonics!
The Big Pig Song
This singalong song is from Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read. “You laugh, you’ll cry. You’ll learn words that have the letter i.”
Crazy Phonics Song
This super version of the “Chit Chat Chicken” song created by Kids vs Phonics just gets faster and faster!
Phonics Song with TWO Words
This phonics song gives kids two word examples for each letter.
Alphabet Phonics Song
“A says a, a, apple and alligator.” This catchy song will have kids singing along!
Jolly Phonics Song
The entire set of 42 letter sounds is visually shown along with songs to practice learning.
Phonics Songs for Kids
Mother Goose Club uses music and fun graphics to teach kids phonics.
Learning Letter Sounds
This phonics song teaches children the alphabet and the beginning letter sounds.
The Alphabet Song
This song by Jack Hartmann is great for teaching and learning the alphabet and phonics.
Meet the Phonics
This 41-minute video will help students learn the different sounds that letters make.
Plus, check out our fun phonics activities!
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Try These 10 Fun Phonics Activities to Teach Letter Sounds to Children
What is phonics?
Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds as well as the understanding of how those sounds connect to form words.
For instance, the /c/ sound, the short /a/ sound, and the /t/ sound blend together to form the word cat.
What does the research say about teaching phonics?
Research indicates the importance of teaching children phonics as a preliminary step for learning to read.
Research also suggests that systematic instruction which incorporates wordplay (manipulating letters/sounds in words to change the word), writing words, and using manipulatives such as magnetic letters to create words are all effective strategies for teaching phonics.
Additionally, research demonstrates the benefits of applying a multi-sensory approach to phonics instruction.
A multi-sensory approach incorporates sight, sound, touch, and movement into instruction. This helps address a variety of learning modalities, enabling students to better absorb the information.
Ten Fun Research-Based Phonics Activities to Teacher Letter-Sounds
1. Play the game “I Spy.”
In the game “I spy” you pick something that you see and don’t tell the child what it is. The child has to guess what you see.
Here is how you can use “I Spy” to teach letter sounds (phonics):
Let’s say you see a book in the room: You can say: I spy something that starts with the letter B or I spy something that ends with the letter K.
After your child guesses what “you spy” have them tell you the sound the letter makes. If your child cannot guess what “you spy” or does not know the letter sound, provide them with assistance.
You can also do the same thing using letter sounds. For example, if you see a book, you can say “I spy something that starts with (make the sound for b)” or “I spy something that ends with (make the sound for k).
After your child finds the object, have them tell you what the first letter (or last letter) of the object is. Take turns with your child. First you spy, then they spy, or vice versa.
2. Put letters on flashcards for a fun activity.
Put one letter on each card as shown below (create upper case and lower case cards):
Here is a sample activity:
Pick three to four-letter words and scramble them up. For example, if the word is pig, put the letters out-of-order (e.g., ipg) on the table in front of your child.
Put the letters one to two feet in front of your child so she has room to work. Next, give them a sheet of paper with three (or four) spaces for letters on it, like so _ _ _.
Then tell them the word or show a picture of the word and give the instruction (e.g., “I want you to make the word pig on the lines below, using the letters above).
If you have Magnetic Letters, you can use these as well. You can also encourage your child to write the letters in with a pen or pencil.
You can do word families to help your child understand that many words are spelled the same way, with only the first letter different. So after pig, try big, wig, and rig.
Rhyming practice is another helpful strategy when teaching kids about letter sounds.
3. Play letter-sound Go Fish.
Make doubles of flash cards. Each player gets five cards and the rest of the cards go in a pile in the center of the table.
Player 1 calls out a letter-sound and asks if player 2 has a match.
If they don’t have a match, tell them to “go fish” which means to choose from the pile. See more detailed rules for how to play Go Fish here.
4. Make your own phonics Bingo game.
Draw a grid or make one on the computer like the one below. (You can also print out a large version of the one below here). You can find more blank grids here).
While the grid above has 25 boxes, you can play phonics Bingo with 9 or 16 boxes also.
Here are four options for getting pictures into the boxes:
Option 1 – Draw something simple in each box.
Examples of simple drawings for each letter of the alphabet include an apple, a banana, a comb, a door, an egg, a feather, a girl, a hat, an ice-cube, a jar, a kite, a light bulb, a mitten, a nose, an orange, a pan, a queen, a ring, a spoon, a table, an umbrella, a vase, a worm, a xylophone (that one might not be so easy to draw), and a zipper.
Use colors to make it look fun.
Option 2 – Get images from Google Images, print them, cut them out and glue them in the boxes.
Option 3 – Go to Google Images, copy each image by hitting “control c’ or by right-clicking on the image and selecting copy, then paste each picture into each grid box by right-clicking in the grid and clicking paste or by hitting “control v.”
Option 4 – Find and print out ready-made Bingo grids by doing a search for Kids Bingo Grids
You can play the Bingo game four ways:
1 – Call out a letter sound. If your child has a picture on her Bingo card that starts with that letter sound, have her put a coin, checker piece, or small piece of paper over the picture (you can cut index cards into small pieces.
This will work better than regular paper because the pieces will be heavier and stay on the Bingo card better).
2 – Call out a letter. If your child has a picture on her Bingo card that starts with that letter, have her cover the picture.
3 – Call out a letter sound. If your child has a picture that ends with that letter sound, have her cover the picture.
4 – Call out a letter. If your child has a picture that ends with that letter, have her cover the picture.
When your child fills up a row, up, down, or diagonally, she gets Bingo (she wins).
5. Make flashcards with a picture on one side and the letter the picture starts with (or ends with) on the other side
You can draw the pictures yourself or make flashcards using pictures from Google Images.
To make a flashcard from Google Images, go to the Image, copy it, “right-click” on it and click copy or hit “control c.” Then go to a word document and paste (right-click and click paste or “hit control v.”).
Then print out the pages, cut out the picture, and write the corresponding letter on the back.
If you know how to insert tables, you can put several pictures on the page in table boxes, print the page, cut out all the pictures, and put the letters on the back.
Here is an example:
Show your child a picture and ask them to tell you the letter (or letter sound) it starts with (or ends with). If they are correct, let them know and show them the back of the card. If they are not correct, give them two more tries.
If they do not get the letter or sound, show them the back of the card and tell them the letter and sound (then enunciate the sound as you say the word), have them say the letter/sound back to you twice and shuffle the card back in the pile. Repeat.
6. For children who have a lot of energy, turn a phonics lesson into a movement activity.
Tape four letters onto the wall as shown in the image below:
Call out a letter sound and tell your child to run to the letter that makes that sound, touch it and run back. Spice it up. Here are some examples:
-Hop to the letter that makes the sound
-Skip to the letter that makes the sound
-Tip Toe to the letter that makes the sound
7. For another movement activity, put tape on the floor, with a letter on each piece of tape.
Tell your child to start with their feet on a certain letter (e.g., start on letter A), then tell them to jump to different letters, using the letter sounds.
For example, “Jump to the letter that makes the sound (insert letter sound).”
See an example below:
As your child becomes more independent with his letter sounds, you can make the letters spell actual words. For the word cat, have three pieces of tape, C, A, T.
Tell your child to start at the C, then jump to the next letter in Cat, and then the last letter.
To make it more challenging, have your child spell the word backwards, by starting with the last letter and jumping in order until they get to the first letter.
Mix up the game with upper and lower case letters. The example above has three letters, but you can use as many pieces of tape and letters as you want.
Start out with a few and add more if your child is making good progress.
8. Make a worksheet, using words and pictures with your child’s favorite characters, foods, animals, etc.
You can draw the worksheets by hand or use tables in Microsoft Word. For a three-letter word, make a table with five columns and one row.
Put the picture of the word in the first box of the table (you can draw in the pictures or copy and paste them from Google Images). Put the letters in the other boxes, but leave one letter out. Have your child fill in the missing letter.
Here is an example of the worksheet:
Click here to print out your own version of this sheet.
For children who may have trouble solving this worksheet, try providing them with a letter bank to see if that helps.
See an example of a worksheet with a letter bank below.
Click here to print out your own version of a phonics worksheet with a letter bank.
9. Have your child paste letters on paper as you call out the sounds.
You can use the letter flashcards you made, like in number 2.
You can use this activity to teach your child how to spell words.
Draw lines or boxes on the paper so your child knows where to paste the letters.
You can give your child the exact number of letters in the word, or throw in some extra letters to make it more challenging.
Call out the first sound in the word, have your child pick the correct letter, and paste it on the first line.
Then have them do the next sound, and so on, until the word is complete.
Supervise the activity, providing assistance as needed.
When your child is done, hang up their work to show them that you are proud of their effort.
You can also use this idea to teach a child how to spell their name, such as the sample in the image below.
10. Sing the alphabet sound song.
The tune is similar to the traditional alphabet song.
Here is a great example by Kidstv123. You can make up your own version as well.
What else can you do to help your child learn letter sounds?
If your child is significantly struggling with learning letter sounds or acquiring other academic skills, despite consistent practice and guidance, talk to your child’s school and/or doctor.
They can refer you to the appropriate professionals to determine what might interfere with your child’s progress and if additional strategies could help.
Additional Information About Teaching Phonics to Children
Keep in mind that the activities in this article are recommendations. Please do not try to pressure a child into participating in any of these activities.
This can lead to your child feeling frustrated, and possibly shying away from phonics (letter-sound) practice.
Remember to always stay calm when working with a child or student, even if you think they should be getting something that they are not getting.
If you get frustrated with them, they may start to feel anxious, angry, inferior, stupid, etc. which will lead to a less productive learning session.
Keep practice sessions short (2 to 10 minutes for younger children or children who get easily frustrated and 10 to 15 minutes for older children or children who can work for longer periods without frustration), unless the child is eager to keep going.
For suggestions on ways to encourage children to complete tasks or assignments they do not want to do, read the following articles:
- 3 Ways to Use Timers to Encourage Homework and Chore Completion
- How to Use Schedules to Improve Children’s Behavior
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Sounds and letters of the Russian language - scheme, table, transcription
Contents:
• 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.
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].
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.
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.
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 parsing, 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.
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.
| Vowels0040 | |
| Consistent | Tshh zh zh zhb r k l m nm hhhh |
| b, b. | b |
- vowel, - vowel iot - 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.
Words with the letter ё must be written through ё. Phonetic parsing of the words "everything" and "everything" will be different!
Sounds of speech and letters - ҰBT, Қorytyndy attestattau zhane OZhSB sonқtaryn dayyndaytyn online zhattyқtyrғysh құraly
Yeste saktau
Tirkelu
Abstract
Speech sounds are the smallest units of the language, but with their help you can turn one word into another: house - smoke - volume .
It is easy to see that the words house and smoke differ in vowels [o] and [s], and the words house and volume differ in consonants [d] and [t].
The branch of the science of language, which studies the sounds of speech, is called phonetics. We pronounce and hear sounds, we see and write letters. Lettering of speech sounds in writing studies graphics (from Greek "grapho" - writing). Letters arranged in a certain sequence make up alphabet . There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet: 10 letters stand for vowels and 21 for consonants. Two letters - b and b - do not represent sounds.
Vowels are called sounds, during the formation of which the air passes freely through the oral cavity without encountering any obstruction. There are 6 vowels in Russian: [a], [o], [y], [e], [i], [s]. Vowel sounds in words can be stressed and unstressed .
Consonants are sounds, during the formation of which the air meets some kind of barrier in the oral cavity.
There are 36 consonant sounds in Russian: [b], [b '], [c], [c '], [g], [g '], [d], [d '], [g], [s] , [s'], [d'], [k], [k'], [l], [l'], [m], [m'], [n], [n'], [n] , [p'], [p], [p'], [s], [s'], [t], [t'], [f], [f'], [c], [h'] , [x], [x'], [w], [w'].
Suraktar
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A word with more letters than sounds
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Object of study of phonetics
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Number of vowels in Russian
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Number of vowels in Russian
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Number of vowels in a word infectious
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Number of letters and sounds in a word eat
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Always hard consonants
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Missing letter I word
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There are more letters than sounds in a word
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Voiceless consonant series
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Number of letters in the Russian alphabet
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Series of hissing sounds
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The vowel is the sound
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The number of letters in the Russian alphabet denoting consonants
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Branch of the science of language dealing with the sounds of speech
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Number of vowels in Russian
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There are more sounds than there are letters in a word
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How many letters in the Russian alphabet that represent vowel sounds?
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Specify the vowel sound.
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A word in which the number of letters and sounds does not match
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A series of letters that do not represent sounds
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There are more letters in a word than sounds
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Specify the vowel sound.
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The letter has no sound
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Word with a letter that does not represent a sound
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Specify the vowel sound.
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