Phonic sound of alphabets

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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.

English alphabet - part 1

In order to learn to read, it is necessary to master the English alphabet. There are too many reading rules in English, some of them are complex and illogical. In addition, not all words are read according to the rules. According to various estimates, only a third of them. Even after studying a language for more than one year, it is impossible to know with certainty how an unfamiliar word is read. D

Any English dictionary is supplied with so-called transcriptions, which consist of icons of the sounds that make up the word. Thus, in addition to the original names that the British assigned to 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, it is necessary to remember the spelling and pronunciation of 45 sounds.

Not all of these sounds are in Russian. It will be impossible in many cases to more or less adequately convey the pronunciation of a word by writing it in Russian letters. For self-study, it is necessary to use audio CDs or online dictionaries, where sound accompaniment is given. To correctly pronounce the sound yourself, you need to know the articulation, that is, the position of the lips and tongue.

Let's start with the lightest sounds, and gradually move on to the names of the letters.

The sound [i:] resembles the Russian sound "and". The symbol “:” means that the sound is long. The length of vowel sounds has a meaningful function. That is, whether you pronounce a long sound or a short one in certain words, their meaning will change.

The sound [e] is similar to the Russian "e". The sound [b] resembles our “b”, [f] - “f”, [m] - “m”, [v] - “c”, [p] - “p”. Now let's remember the name of several letters: Bb [bi:], Ff [ef], Mm [em], Vv [vi:], Pp [pi:].

Further sounds and letters seem to be simple and familiar, but there is one peculiarity of articulation. The tongue is not located at the base of the upper teeth, as we Russians do. It is necessary to feel for the tubercles behind the upper teeth, the so-called alveoli. When pronouncing the following sounds, your tip of the tongue will be exactly there: [d] - “d”, [t] - “t”, [l] - “l”, [n] - “n”. Here are the names of a few more letters: Dd [di:], Tt [ti:], Ll [el], Nn [en].

So, we have mastered several sounds and consonants. In order to learn how to read at least some words, you need to enter vowels. And the first letter will be Ee [i:]. For vowels, the rule of open and closed syllable usually applies. In an open syllable, the letter is read as in the alphabet. For example, if there are no consonants in the syllable after the letter “Ee”, then such a syllable is considered open, and the letter “Ee” reads [i:] (remember the longitude of the sound). The double letter "Her" is also read. In a closed syllable, the letter "Ee" reads [e].

Her

[i:]

me [mi:] feet [fi:t]

be [bi:] sleep [sli:p]

[e]

ten [ten] "ten"

bed [bed] "bed"

Final voiced consonants in a word are not stunned, as in Russian. That is, the sound [d] at the end of the word "bed" does not turn into [t].

Consider reading other vowels in open and closed syllables. At first glance, everything will be very simple, until it comes to combinations with some letters, which will lead to completely unpredictable results. But more on that later.

The letter "Ii" [ai] in an open syllable is read as in the alphabet [ai], for example, in the word five [faiv]. If you divide this word into syllables, you can clearly see that the first syllable is open. That is, it does not close with a consonant: fi–ve. The letter "e" at the end of many words is not readable, just like in French. In a closed syllable, the letter "Ii" reads [i].

II

[ai]

five [faiv] "five"

nine [nain]

[i]

it [it] "it"

in [in] "in"

The letter Yy [wai] - "wai" - semi-vowel, semi-consonant. In words where she is a vowel, it is read according to the same rules as her sister Ii: my [mai]. The sound [w] is as energetic as our “v”, but the lips are gathered into a tube, as if you were pronouncing the Russian “y”.

Let's introduce some more consonants: Ss [es], Zz [zed], Cc [si:]. The letter Ss gives the sound [s], very similar to the Russian "s". The letter Zz is the sound [z] - "z". The letter Cs can be pronounced [s] or [k] - "k". Now let's continue with the vowels: the letter Aa [ei] - "hey".

[ei]

name [neim]

plane [plein]

[æ] is a cross between "a" and "e". The mouth is wide open.

cat [kæt]

black [blæk]

So, now you can compose the simplest phrases and try to read them.

My name is ... [mai neim iz] - My name is .... (My name is….)

My cat is black [mai kæt iz blæk] - My cat (my cat) is black (th).

Five cats [faiv kæts] - five cats (cats)

Nine planes [nain pleinz] - nine aircraft

Ten planes [ten pleinz] - ten planes

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