1. Set the word difficulty by setting the max word length.
1. Practice the simple words in the program. To create a simple word list, go to the Quick Settings page and set the Word Max option to 6 as in the screen shot.
When you login the program, please select beginner as the level for children who are first year, intermediate for the second and third year, the advanced for the fourth year.
After you login the program, click the Consonant tab and select those consonant sounds to teach.
3. Use online phonics song to make it fun.
3. Use online phonics songs to teach the sounds to children. To access the phonics songs, just click the Phonics Video tab in the Online Tutorial.
Click here to see the phonic sound for the letter W.
1. Click the Consonant tab
2. Click the consonant sounds which are
b,
p,
f,
s,
k,
g,
p, and
t.
3. Click the those blending sounds in the Online Tutorial.
4. Practice simple words with those blending sounds.
7. Teach the long vowels at a time by combining with the known consonants.
A long vowel sound is a sound which is the same as, or very similar to the letter name of one of the vowels. For example,
the sound of the long a sound is the same as the letter A. There are five long vowel sounds which are
the long a,
e,
i,
o, and
u sounds.
In Pronunciation Patterns, there is the long oo sound.
To learn each of the long sounds, go to the Vowel page and click the first row.
Practice simple words with these long sounds.
8. Call attention the last E changes the sound.
8. Call attention the last E changes the sound and learn the silent E rule.
Show them the words
mate
vs.
mat,
cape
vs.
cap,
fate
vs.
fat,
kite
vs.
kit,
bite
vs.
bit
etc to help them realize when the letter a and i are pronounced as the long sounds and when as the short sounds.
Pronunciation Patterns finds matched words such as mate and mat or all similar words such as mate, meat, meet, might, moat, mute, mat, met, and mitt.
9. Call attention to the vowel digraphs in the same way:
ea,
ai,
oa,
ay.
9. Call attention to the vowel digraphs in the same way:
ea,
ai,
oa,
ay.
Help them to recognize that the first letter is pronounced and the second letter is silent.
In Pronunciation Patterns, we use oy to represent the oy/oi sound and ow for the ow/ou sound.
1. Click the Vowels tab.
2. Click the oy sound and the ow sound.
11. Teach the 12 phonics rules.
11. Teach the 14 phonics rules.
1. When there is one vowel in the word and it is at the last, it is long.
Me,
he,
shy,
cry
2. Silent E Rule: One vowel in the word, not at the last, is short; as, mat, nest, pond.
3. Two Vowel Rule: When there are two or more vowels in a syllable, or a word of one syllable the first vowel is long, and the last are silent; as: meat, sneeze, day.
4. Double Consonant Rule: When double consonants occur, the last is silent; tell.
Pronunciation Patterns lists these sounds in the third row. To access them, you can just click on it and then click the link in the Online Tutorial section to see the words for the pattern.
