TEACHING OF PHONICS By Akhtar Mirza
Phonics The word Phonics is derived from “Phone” which means “Sound”. It can be defined as “A method of teaching language at the beginning age with the help of sounds. It is a very simple, interesting and easy method. It helps the children/students to improve their pronunciation.
STRUCTURE OF SOUNDS • Every language of the world has a sound system and no language is without sounds. • There are 44 sounds in English Language for 26 alphabets. • They are divided in two parts. 1. Vowels 2. Consonants. •
STRUCTURE OF SOUNDS 44 Sounds 24 Consonant Sounds 12 Monothongs
20 Vowels 8 Diphthongs
• IPA CHART
PHONEME • Phoneme is called the smallest meaningful sound. • The phoneme has mental, physiological, and physical substance: our brains process the sounds; the sounds are produced by the human speech organs; and the sounds are physical entities that can be recorded and measured
VOWELS • Vowel Sounds are those sounds which are created from mouth without any hindrance in the oral cavity.
CONSONANTS • Consonants are the sounds which are created from our oral cavity with some hindrance
MONOTHONGS • These are the sounds created from oral cavity in a single breath e.g. • c A t. f EE l f OO l h A rp
DIPHTHONGS • When two vowel sounds are mixed and • created together, they are called diphthongs e.g. • c A w = AA • c O w = AA + O = AO
Teaching Phonics
You cant teach the 44 sounds to a small kid or even to a PST who is supposed to teach the primary classes. It is a different phenomena to teach phonic sounds to the small kids. We use 26 basic alphabet sounds in the beginning. Just tell the sounds not the name of the alphabets (ay, bee, see, dee, ee, ef, jee are the names of alphabets) The vowel sounds are introduced with the name of VOWELS and Diphthongs are introduced as DOUBLE VOWELS.
BLENDS When two alphabets are written together and gives double sound, it is called a blend e.g. Bl ow Cl ap, Fl ed,
BEGINNING & ENDING BLENDS When two alphabets give double sounds at the beginning are called beginning alphabets e.g. BL eat FL ip CL ean When two alphabets give double sounds at the end are called ending blend e.g. cl AP ju MP smi TH
DIAGRAPHS When two alphabets produce single sound, it is described as diagraph e.g. PH one CH air SC ience
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