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Hooked on Phonics Review
(by Coupon Bella)
As a mother of a toddler, I
am often bemused by the quaint way she pronounces some words. For
instance, the way she says “cueet” instead of “cute” or
“buttercotch” instead of “butterscotch”. It is endearing really but
I’m afraid it will not remain so if she continues with her
mispronunciations as an adult.
Much of the way we pronounce
stems from a concept called ‘phonemic awareness’. Phonemic awareness
refers to a person’s ability to hear and work with sounds in spoken
words. For instance, children with good phonemic awareness abilities
are able to discern individual sounds in a word and therefore use
them effectively to pronounce a word correctly. For instance, they
know that the word ‘bat’ comprises individual sounds of ‘b’ – ‘a’ –
‘t’ and when put together in a sequence it is pronounced as ‘bat’.
To teach a pre-schooler the
concept of phonemic awareness, it is important to first make the
child understand the sounds of each alphabet. And one of the most
effective ways to do this is to correlate the alphabet to the sound
of a word familiar to the child. For instance, ‘a’ as in ‘apple’ or
‘b’ as in ‘ball’.
Once the child is aware of
the sounds of each letter, it is a good idea to introduce the
concept of rhymes. That’s right! Rhymes bring the child’s focus to
similar ‘sounding’ words and helps children make the connection
between words and their sounds. And you thought that rhymes didn’t
really teach anything! Rhymes also help a person develop good
recitation skills with proper voice modulation and diction.
So let’s suppose your child
now knows how each letter sounds and is more or less conversant with
the sounds of most words, it is now time to help him/her make a
connect between a word and the letter the word begins with. For
example, you could say aloud one word after the other and ask your
child to point out the alphabet with which the words begin. And if
your child is one to get bored easily, make the exercise
interesting. Provide several pictures (perhaps three) and place a
letter next to them. Ask the child to circle the picture that begins
with the sound of the letter. You can use the same exercise to teach
children to identify the ending sound of the word.
You can wrap up this basic
phonemic awareness program (if you can call it such) with the
concept of vowels. And you can use the same teaching method (as
described in the above paragraph) to teach your child the concept of
vowels. Put in this little effort early in your child’s life and you
will see how well turned out he/she will be.
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