Phonic sound of alphabet

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With this alphabet chart, understand how to say the names of the letters and read about all the sounds of each letter from the alphabet. These are the basic phonetic sounds for American English. To learn important sounds using free videos online, go to Pronunciation in English: 500 Words.

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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!

• 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?

This approach to joyful accelerated literacy connects

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.

Listen to the letters of the English alphabet

Start learning English with the alphabet, because it contains letters that will help you learn to read and write.

Origin of the alphabet and pronunciation of English letters

The basis of the modern English alphabet is the Latin alphabet, but the names of the English letters differ significantly from the original Latin ones, so they must be learned by heart. The fact is that the English alphabet consists of 26 letters, and in the language itself there are 44 sounds (according to some studies, up to 49). This means that the same letter can express several sounds . Conversely, one sound can be written in different letters . That is, we can talk about the pronunciation of a letter only in a specific word. Take for example the sound [f], it can be expressed by the letter f> fish (fish) , as well as combinations of letters ph> philosophy (philosophy) or gh> laughter (laughter) .

This means that the name of the letter and its pronunciation are not at all the same thing. When we talk about the alphabet, we mean the names of the letters.

American English Alphabet with Pronunciation

Now listen to the whole alphabet

Why know the alphabet by heart?

The alphabet is a very important element of language learning. It must be memorized so that it "flies off the teeth." Firstly, it will greatly facilitate the process of learning the language - reading, writing, working with dictionaries, will help to master pronunciation. Secondly, the alphabet will also be useful in oral communication, because the British, like the Americans, are very fond of abbreviations, and most of them are spelled. Knowing the alphabet and popular abbreviations, you will not be confused when you hear: LA (L-Hey), DC (DC), FBI (FBI), CIA (CIA) or NYPD (NWY- Pee Dee). If you have to work with lists or tables, then it will be much easier for you to search for the desired text, since tables and lists are most often sorted alphabetically.

During a telephone conversation, you can often hear: Can you spell your name, please? , which means something like this: I can't understand your foreign name, please spell .

How to learn the English alphabet?

Each letter must be known “by sight”, but the letters of the alphabet cannot be taught separately, it is much easier to learn them in a “legalized sequence”, the alphabet must flow like a song, the letters must be connected and inseparable like train cars.

Pay attention to how the letter "Z" sounds in the American version of the alphabet, remember the group
ZZ top ? Or maybe you met somewhere the letter combination EZ ? Now you'll know what it means easy - that's how all are just !

At the beginning of this page, we listened to the alphabet, and now we can look at the handwritten version of the spelling of English letters.

Handwritten Letters of the English Alphabet

Here you see one of the options for writing the letters of the English alphabet. This is exactly the option, since the variety of handwriting and individual characteristics of writing letters tends to infinity, ranging from simple “copying” printed letters to calligraphic delights in retro style. Do not get too hung up on the handwritten version, write as you like, the main thing is to be understood.

And in the children's section of our site you will find a song about the alphabet for the little ones.
You may also be interested in the section of our website dedicated to learning English with a child.

How to learn the alphabet with your child

Many parents want to learn how they can help their child learn the alphabet. There is nothing particularly difficult in this matter. And if you follow all the rules, you can be very successful in it. But, first, it is worth understanding why parents need it.

Developmental tasks for children aged 5-6 - https://childdevelop.ru/worksheets/.

Parents often want to learn the alphabet with their child early (before 5 years) in order to brag about the fact that their child knows letters and can read in general. There is nothing wrong with this if the child learns letters with pleasure and asks for it himself, which is quite rare. If the child does not want to learn letters at such a young age, there is no need to insist. The time to learn the alphabet has not yet come. By insisting, it is quite possible to form a negative attitude towards learning in general in a child.

The best time to start learning the alphabet with your child is preschool age, namely 5-6 years. At an earlier age, the child will memorize letters purely mechanically, without a proper understanding of the essence of what he is learning and why in general. After all, letters must be learned in order to be able to read and write. And these skills begin to be needed and in demand by the beginning of schooling.

Also, many parents want to learn the alphabet with their child early, because they believe that it needs to be urgently developed comprehensively so as not to miss something. But everything has its time. Even without knowing the alphabet, a baby has a lot of skills that need to be mastered during this period: learn the names of the main colors, seasons, vegetables, fruits, clothing items; know the names and surnames of relatives and the address of their residence; learn to eat on their own, tie shoelaces and much more, really necessary for him to live in the preschool period.

But, in any case, if parents want to learn the alphabet with their child, they need to know and follow some rules:

1. - Learning should take place in a playful way. Up to 6-7 years, the game is the leading activity of the child. A leading activity is one in the course of which the most intensive and successful development of a person takes place. For a preschooler, this activity is a game. It is in the process of play that a child best learns knowledge, skills and abilities. You can offer your child interesting learning tasks (you can view and download them here: https://childdevelop.ru/worksheets/tag-rus), completing which he will learn the alphabet, perceiving this lesson as a game.
2. - When teaching letters to a child, one must remember that due to age, he has involuntary attention. This means that the child fixes his attention on those things that arouse his interest. Therefore, the materials on which the letters are written should be colorful, bright, with a variety of patterns. For example, you can show the child what it looks like and say the name of the letter being studied, and then invite him to find it hidden in the picture.

Also available with sounds for learning the alphabet with talking toys. But here it is worth paying attention to the correct pronunciation of letters in such toys. After all, if some letters sound wrong (for example, instead of the letter “em”, the letter “me” will sound), the child will learn them that way. And, as you know, retraining is harder than teaching. And in general, it is worth learning the letters the way they sound, and not the way they are written in the alphabet, so that the child does not get confused when he learns to read by syllables.

• - Learn one letter at a time. Then it must be repeated. Psychologists E.E. Vasilyev and V.Yu. Vasiliev developed a mode of rational repetition. According to him, the first repetition of the studied letter should occur in 20 minutes; the second - after 8 hours; the third - in a day. This repetition mode is based on the forgetting curve, according to which a person forgets most of the learned material (60%) within an hour. Already 10 hours after studying, only 35% of the information remains in memory, and a day later - a little more than 20%.

Thus, having learned one letter with the child, for example, with the help of a learning task, repeat what you have done in 20 minutes, offering him another task aimed at learning the same letter, etc.

When you make sure that the child names the learned letter without much difficulty even on the second day after learning, move on to learning the next letter.

• - No need to learn letters according to the alphabet. You have to start with vowels. After them, you can move on to consonants. To understand in what sequence it is better to learn the letters, use the ABC hint.
• - Letters are memorized thanks to mechanical memory. But the experiments of the famous German scientist G. Ebbinghaus showed that a person remembers meaningful material nine times better than meaningless. In order to give meaning to memorizing letters, think with your child (it will be more effective if he does it himself) what the letter being studied looks like. For example, the letter "O" looks like a steering wheel.

Ask your child to also name words that begin with the letter they are learning.

Some letters can be drawn with the body. For example, the letter "T" will turn out if a person stands straight, moving his legs and holding his arms wide. Play with your child in this way, involving not only mechanical and semantic, but also motor memory.

• - Remember to take the time to study the letter. The smaller the child, the less time he is able to hold even involuntary attention, not to mention arbitrary. Practice with a preschooler no more than 10-15 minutes at a time.
• - Encourage your child to use the learned material in practice, because in this way any information is remembered better. For example, if you see a sign on the street with a word on it, ask your child to name all the letters on it that he or she knows.

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