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Pronunciation and the development of vocabulary

Posted on 21st February 20233rd June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, structured literacy and tagged article, benefits of wide reading, comprehension, develop vocabulary, expanding vocabulary, meaning in context, mispronunciation, phonic pronunciation, reading skills, research, teaching phonicsLeave a Comment

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We all mispronounce words from time to time, especially when they are unfamiliar to us. Speech and Language Pathologist Miriam Fein explores the important link between pronunciation and the development of vocabulary. Every once in a while someone starts a thread on Twitter about words that they mispronounced for a long time because they only encountered […]

Sound Snap: a fun way to teach precise pronunciation

Posted on 18th May 20171st June 2024 in Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged article, beginner readers, phonic pronunciation, precise pronunciation, pronounce alphabet letters, pronounce phonic sounds, pure phonic sounds, sounds of english, synthetic phonic soundsLeave a Comment

I have just started to teach a struggling reader in Year 1. The first thing I observed from my assessment was that she did not use pure phonic sounds, also known as ‘precise pronunciation’. Many of the consonants were pronounced with an added ‘uh’ sound: for example, /k/ was pronounced ‘kuh’ and /p/ was pronounced […]

How to correct phonic pronunciation

Posted on 27th November 201513th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Games, Synthetic Phonics and tagged how to pronounce letters, phonic pronunciation, precise letter sounds, pure soundsLeave a Comment

A fun activity for learning phonic sounds