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Learning Letter Sounds

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These worksheets include review sheets for Beginning Consonant Sounds and Ending Consonant Sounds.  They were developed with Preschool and Kindergarten children in mind.  They provide letter recognition, phonics and printing practice.

All children develop as individuals.  Parents and caregivers should use the grade level ratings as a general guideline, taking the abilities, temperament and interests of their children into account

Beginning Consonants:  Which letter does the picture start with?

Beginning Consonants:  Print the letter the pictures start with the letter sound.

Ending Consonants:  Which letter does the picture end with?

Ending Consonants:  Print the letter the pictures start with the letter sound

Visit DLTK's Alphabuddies for printable crafts, coloring pages, felt board templates, tracer pages and poems to supplement these letter recognition worksheets.

Videos for Learning Letter Sounds

Last updated on January 5, 2022

Don’t waste time searching for videos on YouTube! I’ve compiled a list of my five favorite tried-and-true videos for teaching and learning letter sounds.

It’s the 21st century, and we know that videos are highly engaging for kids and adults alike. So why not use videos for teaching and learning?

I love using videos with my kindergarten students, especially my English language learners (ESL/ELL students). There’s just something about songs that helps learning “stick.”

You can use educational videos to open a lesson, as a warm up, to fill in the small time gaps during the day, or as a review at the end of the day.

I’ve scoured YouTube for videos for learning letter sounds. Here are the top five videos that I recommend!

Learning Videos for the Classroom

While I personally believe these videos are appropriate for preschool, kindergarten and first grade classrooms, remember that there can often be inappropriate ads before and after YouTube videos. Also, I always recommend previewing the full video before showing it to your class.

If you plan to show YouTube videos in your classroom, I highly recommend that you read this blog post by Catherine, the Brown Bag Teacher. She shares three ways to eliminate YouTube video ads so that you can safely play these learning videos in your classroom.

Without further ado, here are five fabulous videos for teaching and learning letter sounds in the classroom!

Videos for Learning Letter Sounds

1. Have Fun Teaching’s Alphabet Song

This video is perfect for practicing letter names and sounds. It says the names of the letters clearly as they appear, which provides great visual repetition. It also a catchy song and is well-loved by students.

2. The Letter Factory Letter Sounds

This video is a kindergarten teacher favorite! It has all of the clips and songs from the Letter Factory video. Each sound is sung many times. The letters are shown so students can connect the sounds to the letters. There are also many word/sound connections. For example, “l” is sung by licking lollipops.

[Note: Every time I start open the link to this video, it begins the video at 50 seconds in, which is the letter E. To start at the letter A, just click on the beginning of the video so it starts at 0:01.]

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3. Learning Letter Sounds

Have you heard of Jack Hartmann? He has some amazing educational videos on YouTube. In this video, Jack is “on the beach.” He reviews all the letter names and sounds in order. He also acts out each beginning sound as the word/object is displayed on the screen. I love that he focuses on building brain and body connections!

4. Act Out the Alphabet

This is great for English language learners! In this video, Jack acts out the alphabet (in order). It’s kinesthetic, so there’s a movement for every letter sound. For each letter, he says the letter name, letter sound, a word that starts with the letter and acts it out in a way for students to mimic.

5. Letter Sound Automaticity 

This video is more “advanced” because it practices the letter sounds out-of-order (just like Move & Master Fluency Tables – Alphabet Edition)! It mixes lowercase and uppercase letters and it includes long vowel sounds, too! As it shows each letter, it gives 4 seconds of wait time for students to say the letter sound before Jack reinforces it by saying it in the video. Each letter sound is reviewed twice.

Do you know of any videos for teaching letter sounds?

What do you think? Do you have any videos you could add to the list? If so, please let me know in the comments below! I would love to update this post with more videos. 🥳

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Phonetic analysis of the word. What it is? How to do it? Examples

What is phonetic analysis

Phonetic , or sound-alphabetic, word analysis is an analysis of the sounds and letters that make up this word.

There are 33 letters in Russian, from which we compose words and write them down on paper. When we pronounce a word, we hear sounds - this is how the letters in its composition sound. In some words, the same letter can mean two sounds at the same time or not sound at all. This is where sound-letter analysis comes in handy: it is needed so that we can analyze sounds and letters, write correctly, and also pronounce words.

Demo lesson in Russian

Take the test at the introductory lesson and find out what topics separate you from the "five" in Russian.

How is the phonetic parsing of a word done?

You can disassemble words by sounds and letters orally or in writing. These methods are slightly different from each other, so let's consider each one separately. We write down the word and all the sounds that are included in it.

Now let's use this algorithm with examples.

Example No. 1. Written phonetic analysis of the verb search

Search [abysk'ivat'] - 4 syllables, 2nd stressed.

o - [a] - ch., unstressed.

b - [b] - acc., sound. couple, tv par.

s - [s] - ch., shock.

s - [s] - acc., deaf. couple, tv par.

k - [k'] - acc., deaf. steam, soft par.

and - [and] - Ch., unstressed.

c - [c] - acc., sound. couple, tv par.

a - [a] - Ch., unstressed.

t - [t'] - acc., deaf. steam, soft par.

b — [–]

10 points, 9 stars

Example No. 2. Written phonetic analysis of the adjective spring

Spring [v'is'en':y'] - 3 syllables, 2nd stressed.

in - [in '] - acc., sound. steam, soft par.

e - [i] - gl., unstressed.

s - [s'] - acc., deaf. steam, soft par.

e - [e] - ch., percussion.

n - [n':] - acc., sonorn. unpaired, soft par.

and - [and] - Ch., unstressed.

th - [th'] - acc., sonorn. unpaired, soft unpaired

8 points, 7 stars

Example No. 3. Written phonetic analysis of a noun professor

Professor [praf'es:ar] - 3 syllables, 2nd stressed.

p - [n] - acc., deaf. couple, tv par.

r - [r] - acc., sonorn. unpaired, tv. par.

o - [a] - ch., unstressed.

f - [f'] - acc., deaf. steam, soft par.

e - [e] - ch., percussion.

s - [s:] - acc., deaf. couple, tv par.

o - [a] - ch., unstressed.

r - [r] - acc., sonorn. unpaired, tv. par.

9 points, 8 stars

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Sample oral phonetic analysis

If you need to do sound-letter analysis orally, follow this algorithm:

1. Syllables and stress. Count and name the number of syllables in a word, indicate the one that is stressed.

2. Vowel sounds. Name the vowels in the order in which they sound in the word. For each of them, determine whether it is percussion or unstressed. Then specify the letters with which they are indicated.

3. Consonants. For each of the consonants, determine whether it is voiced or voiceless, and then - paired or unpaired according to deafness-voicedness. After that, establish whether the sound is hard or soft, as well as paired or unpaired in terms of softness-hardness. At the end of the analysis of each of the consonants, specify which letter it is designated in the word.

4. Number of letters, sounds. Count and name the number of letters and sounds in a word.

Let's practice oral phonetic analysis on the example of the same words that we have analyzed above.

Example No. 1. Oral phonetic analysis of the verb search

2. Vowels:

first - unstressed [a], marked with the letter about ;

second - shock [s], designated by the letter s ;

third - unstressed [and], marked with the letter and ;

fourth - unstressed [a], designated by the letter a .

3. Consonants:

[b] - voiced double, solid double, marked with the letter b ;

[s] - deaf double, solid double, marked with the letter from ;

[k'] - deaf double, soft double, marked with the letter to ;

[c] - voiced double, hard double, marked with the letter in ;

[t'] - deaf double, soft double, marked with the letter t ;

letter ь does not represent sound.

4. In the word search 10 letters and 9 sounds.

Example No. 2. Oral phonetic analysis of the adjective spring

2. Vowels:

the first is unstressed [i], marked with the letter e ;

second - shock [e], marked with the letter e ;

third - unstressed [and], marked with the letter and .

3. Consonants:

[v'] - voiced double, soft double, marked with the letter in ;

[s'] - deaf double, soft double, marked with the letter from ;

[n'] - voiced unpaired (sonor), soft paired, marked with the letter n . The second n does not form a sound in a word;

[d'] - voiced unpaired (sonor), solid unpaired, marked with the letter and .

4. The word spring has 8 letters and 7 sounds.

Example No. 3. Oral phonetic analysis of the noun professor

2. Vowels:

first - unstressed [a], marked with the letter about ;

second - shock [e], marked with the letter e ;

the third is unstressed [a], designated by the letter o .

3. Consonants:

[p] - deaf double, hard double, marked with the letter p ;

[p] - voiced unpaired (sonor), solid paired, marked with the letter p ;

[f'] - deaf double, soft double, marked with the letter f ;

[s] - deaf double, solid double, marked with the letter with . The second from does not form a sound in a word;

[p] - voiced unpaired (sonor), solid paired, marked with the letter p .

4. The word professor has 9 letters and 8 sounds.

Test yourself

Let's find out how well you understand what phonetic parsing is. Below you will find three tasks with which you can practice this skill.

Task 1

Disassemble the following words according to their sound composition: busy, guest, vacancy, pronounce, speaking.

Task 2

Perform oral phonetic analysis of words: box, hospital, go, union, marine.

Task 3

Read the short text below and make a written phonetic analysis of all the nouns in it.

We wandered in the forest in spring and observed the life of hollow birds: woodpeckers, owls. Suddenly, in the direction where we had previously planned an interesting tree, we heard the sound of a saw. It was, we were told, cutting firewood from deadwood for a glass factory.

For the first time, students start doing phonetic analysis of words in the 3rd grade of elementary school. Over time, tasks in the lessons become more complicated, so it is important to understand the topic in time. If after reading this article you still have questions, we invite you to the Skysmart online Russian language school for knowledge. In the classroom, the teacher will tell you what a phonetic (sound-letter) analysis of a word is and how to do it correctly in order to increase the grade at school.

English alphabet with pronunciation, transcription and translation. Letters and sounds of the English alphabet

How many letters are in the English alphabet

The modern English alphabet contains 26 letters. English sounds were first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet as early as the 5th century. Christian missionaries brought to the island not only their religion, but also the Latin alphabet, which began to replace the runic alphabet around the 7th century. For a long time, these two alphabets existed in parallel.

The modern English alphabet (The English alphabet [ˈalfəbɛt]) is based on the Latin alphabet or "Latin". So what is the number in the English alphabet? Unlike the Russian language, which has 33 letters, the English alphabet consists of 26 letters:

• 6 letters can represent vowels: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "Y";
• 21 letters can represent consonants: "B", "C", "D", "F", "G", "H", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N" ”, “P”, “Q”, “R”, “S”, “T”, “V”, “W”, “X”, “Y”, “Z”.

Below we have added a table where you can see the entire English alphabet with the numbering of letters in order.

By the way, the letter Y can stand for both a vowel and a consonant, and therefore refers to both vowels and consonants.

Almost all letters of the English alphabet are pronounced the same by Americans and British, except for the last one. The American alphabet differs in that the letter Z is pronounced as "zi" [ziː], and in the British - "zed" [zed].

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Sounds of the English alphabet

We start learning English letters even before we encounter foreign language lessons. We know them even before we start learning English: we meet them at work, when we play computer games or surf the Internet. English words are found everywhere: on advertising posters, in the names of goods, in store signs.

Although the letters may be visually familiar to us, they are not always pronounced the way they are written. The alphabet of the English language for beginners with pronunciation, numbering and translation will help here, because even those who are fluent in foreign languages ​​find it difficult to speak correctly. A typical situation is to spell an English word, for example, to give an email address, your name or street in English. This is where the difficulties begin, and we try to explain ourselves with images and associations: i - “like a stick with a dot”, H - “like a Russian n”, s - “like a dollar”, v - “like a tick.

From here it is better to memorize not only the letters, but also their pronunciation. The latter is written by transcription and enclosed in square brackets. At first, it will be easier for you to memorize transcription with Russian pronunciation, but gradually you need to give it up and focus only on English transcription.

How to learn the English alphabet

Learning the alphabet is not just about remembering the order of the alphabet in English, Russian or Spanish, or knowing how many non-letters there are. To know the alphabet is to be able to pronounce sounds, as well as to write lowercase and uppercase letters correctly. In order to learn the entire alphabet of the English language easily, quickly and forever, follow these rules:

1. Memorize both uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet at the same time, pay attention to how English letters are written.
2. Learn both the name of the English letters and the correct pronunciation, use the alphabet with transcription. It is easier to remember this at the same time than to relearn it later.
3. Use all available resources: use audio recordings, videos of examples of correct pronunciation, printed texts, Internet resources.
4. Learn the English alphabet in order, as in the alphabet. Then change tactics: start studying the letters backwards, randomly, grouping.
5. Exercise regularly, preferably every day for at least a few minutes. If you are tired of learning the same letters, take any children's book in English. Maybe you will not understand the meaning of what is written, but you will definitely be able to recognize and name this or that letter.

Another good way to learn the alphabet is to memorize a special rhyme. It is very short, but it will help to know every letter by heart:

Do you know your ABC?

You can learn along with me!

A, B, C, D, E, F, G,

H, I, J, K,

L, M, N, O, P U, V,

W, X, Y and Z

Now, I know my ABC's.

Next time won't you sing with me?

And the last piece of advice. Divide all letters into three large groups and learn them in three stages: the first group is 6 vowels: Aa, Her, Ii, Oo, Uu, Yy. Do not forget about transcription and remember that in English vowels can change their sound depending on the type of syllables, stress and other conditions; the second group of letters includes those that are written and pronounced similarly to Russian letters. They are easy to remember: Bb, Cc, Dd, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Pp, Ss, Tt, Xx; the third group consists of those letters that sound and are written unfamiliar to native Russian speakers: Ff, Gg, Hh, Jj, Qq, Rr, Vv, Ww, Zz.

Methods and techniques for memorizing the English alphabet

There are many ways to learn the English alphabet from scratch that are suitable for both adults and children.

The most popular way to learn the English alphabet is through tables. You can print the English alphabet tables from this article or search for others: English alphabet by numbers; English alphabet with numbering of letters, etc. Hang them over your desk and browse and read aloud whenever you have a free moment. The main thing is to memorize the alphabet with the pronunciation of sounds.

One of the most effective ways is to make colored cards with the letters and words that begin with them and post them in a visible place. These cards can be made by yourself or bought in the store. It is better to use well-known words, for example, the names of animals.

You can train with special exercises, for example, this one: get a special notebook and write down the letters in it several lines - both uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet. And when writing, dictate to yourself aloud the name of the letter. This exercise includes all three main types of memory: auditory, visual and motor.

Don't forget about games that will help you learn the English alphabet. For example, Spell the word or “Spell the word” - whoever spells it wrong first loses. And you can also read the alphabet at speed, write letters correctly by ear, pronounce the letters written on the card, and so on. The audio alphabet of the English language with pronunciation has proven itself well. A student can independently master the letters and sounds just by listening to the recording. The main thing is to be systematic.

Interesting facts about the English alphabet

Learning the sounds and letters of the English language will be more fun if you know a few interesting facts about the alphabet:

1. The English alphabet can be called by its first letters "ABC";
2. The English word alphabet comes from the Latin alphabet, where alpha and beta were the first letters of the alphabet. But even before the Latin alphabet, they were the first letters of the Phoenician alphabet (alef and bet), which arose in 1050 BC. e.
3. The article the is the most common word in the English language.
4. The most common letter in the English alphabet is E, and the most common consonant is T. The letters S and T are most common at the beginning of English words. The rarest letters in the alphabet are Q and Z.
5. In English there are only 5 vowels and as many as 20 vowels! For example, the letters Y and W can be pronounced as vowels (try, my, cow, few). The same letter can be read in several ways, for example, in the words cat [kæt], place [pleis], dark [daːk], air [ɛə].
6. All 26 letters of the English alphabet can be put into a sentence or pangram that shows how each letter of the font will look like: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (loosely translated: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." English analogue - "Eat some more of these soft French rolls and drink tea").

Conclusion

English speakers remember their alphabet much more often than Russian speakers, because in English the pronunciation of a word often does not match its spelling. Especially in geographical names and surnames. Then they spell these words (to spell). Therefore, in order to learn the entire English alphabet with the correct pronunciation for an adult, to speak English well and understand native speakers, it is necessary to learn how to spell words. And the phrase "Please spell this word!" ("Please spell") to help you.

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