Luckily, our music education friends are here to help teach letter sounds accurately with fun and catchy songs! All of these songs have been carefully chosen because they teach the accurate letter sounds – no pesky schwa sound here. Plus, we know that each vowel has two sounds – the short and the long sound. Focusing on the shape of the mouth and the tongue’s position is very helpful in teaching correct vowel pronunciation. These tricky vowels are often the HARDEST for kids because the vowel sounds have such similar sounds. When pronouncing the letter sounds /w/ and /y/, you need to be especially careful not to add the /uh/ (schwa sound) to the end but rather clip or stop the sounds at the /w/ and the /y/. So the sound is a stop sound but we would model it continuously, /h/ /h/ /h/. For example, the letter sound /h/ should sign like a dog panting. These sounds can be tricky because they may contain a combination of continuous and stop sounds. The letter sound /s/ is a great one to start with since it makes the all-familiar snake sound and it’s an easy sound for students to replicate.ģ. These sounds are the most fun and generally some of the first letter sounds to be taught. These sounds can be especially tricky and are often subjected to the unwanted schwa at the end (like /buh/ or /puh/ instead of the hard /b/ and /p/.Ģ. They make a fast, short sound that does not continue on. These are the quick and quiet sounds of the alphabet.
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