How to teach phonics and pronunciation to children

How should a teacher or parent use Pronics?

Pronics materials can be used at any time from when children are 4 years old until they are 10.  You can teach phonics and pronunciation with our Pronics materials with native speaker children but also with children who are receiving just an hour or two of English each week. In the Teacher’s Guide you will find different children’s profiles and more detailed guidance on how you should use Pronics with children of all ages and contexts.

Pronics is a totally flexible system therefore you can use it alongside other English materials, and use those parts of Pronics which are relevant to your situation.

The central and essential component of the Pronics method is the learning of the dipthong and vowel sounds in the English language. Knowing these sounds is an essential part of speaking and reading in English correctly.

Improve:

Phonemic Awareness
Pronunciation
Reading
Spelling
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Vowel letters (AEIOU+Y)
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Vowel sounds

Why is English pronunciation and spelling so difficult?

The consonants rarely cause problems for children learning to read as there is usually a one to one correspondence between letter sounds and letters.

It is the vowel sounds which cause the problems! There are just 6 vowel letters but there are about 20 sounds! This makes English one of the most complicated vowel systems in the world! No wonder children have difficulty.

Pronics teaches children to pronounce and learn these sounds perfectly. Scroll down to see how!

 

Learning to read with Pronics

6 STAGES

1

ALPHABET BASICS
  • 26 alphabet sounds
  • Names of alphabet letters
  • Funny friends
  • Cool consonants

2

20 VOWEL SOUNDS
  • learning the 20 rhymes
  • learning the 20 vowel sounds
  • recognising the sounds
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3

BLENDING
  • putting sounds together
  • blending with funny friends
  • blending with cool consonants
  • blending with symbols

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BLEND AND EXTEND N
  • 26 alphabet sounds
  • Names of alphabet letters
  • Funny friends
  • Cool consonants

2

TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE
  • learning the 20 rhymes
  • learning the 20 vowel sounds
  • recognising the sounds
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3

READING CONTINUAL TEXT
  • putting sounds tpgether
  • blending with funny friends
  • blending with cool consonants
  • blending with symbols