Mr. C's Phonemes

Let's practice our English phonemes!

Phonemes are the sounds that letter make. In English, there are (about) 44 different phonemes (and 3 letters do not even have their own phoneme!), so learn them all can be tricky! I know I am still learning too!

These videos will help us practice our phonemes so that we can better sound out words and identify phonemes when words are spoken to us.

The best way to practice is to say the phoneme along with the hand gesture to get that phoneme in your head as a specific English sound. 

Be careful to avoid adding the /ǝ/ (schwa) sound, or a cut off short vowel sound, to the end of your consonant - you will want to because we need to say consonants with vowels (and I'm sure that I add it at times as well -- I'm still learning!). But, try your best to just isolate the consonant sound.

Good luck!