Phonics Sounds

When acquirements about phonics sounds, it's important to bethink the arduous cardinal of means altered belletrist can aftermath altered sounds.

To alpha off with, the English accent is composed of 44 key sounds, alleged phonemes.

Sun Dress

These phonemes, or sounds, can be spelled in 120 altered ways. Learn the sounds that these 120 altered combinations of belletrist accomplish and your adolescent will accept an accomplished foundation for reading.
That sounds challenging, but it's decidedly beneath arduous than abstraction the bags of words that comprise a alive vocabulary.

Here's a acceptable archetype of this concept. The complete /s/ can be represented in abounding altered ways. Sun, dress, city, cell, and horse all accept the aforementioned /s/ sound, but spelled in altered ways.

So what can you do? Learn to acquire the altered graphemes. There are a few capital stages to this process.

1. Letter recognition: It is analytical that your adolescent can Accurately name and acquisition altered belletrist afore starting the action of phonics. That is, they can name all the belletrist of the alphabet and accept a acceptable beheld anamnesis for them. I accept a few acceptable amateur for this, and you can about-face it into a absolutely fun process:

a. Letter match: Buy some alphabet magnets and flashcards. Pour the alphabet magnets on the floor. Hold up a beam card, and see how fast your adolescent can acquisition the letter and run to put it on the fridge.
b. Alphabet Mats: Alphabet cream mats that you can comedy with are actual concrete and a hit with kids.
c. Newspaper search: Hold up a flashcard and see how abounding times you can acquisition that letter in the newspaper.

2. Letter autograph skills: acquirements to address the English accent is actual important. I don't anticipate it's necessarily bare for reading, but a lot of bodies anticipate that acquirements to address the belletrist helps facilitate the account process.

3. Accurately clear the phonemes on the grapheme chart: So a adolescent would apperceive that /s/ makes a "sss" sound, /b/ makes a "buh" sound.

4. Learn all the graphemes and the sounds they make: The phoneme-grapheme blueprint will advice facilitate this, because by attractive at the phoneme in the alpha of the column, and the graphemes listed abutting to it, they will apperceive that the graphemes accomplish the aforementioned complete as the antecedent phoneme. There are a lot of sites with acceptable phoneme-grapheme archive out there.

5. Practice aggregate the belletrist together/reading abilities with decodable readers

This is aloof a quick account of the action of acquirements articulate sounds.

Phonics Sounds