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Improve Your Reading Skills Part 3
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Improve Your Reading Skills Part 3

Beginning Consonant Sounds
Created byMarcy Sproull
Last updated 2/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Improve reading skills by learning the relationships between letter patterns and their sounds
  • Learn words that start with consonant blends, such as BL-, DR-, ST-, etc.
  • Learn words that begin with consonant digraphs such as SH-, CH- TH-
  • Study words that are commonly confused
  • Improve reading skills through word study
  • Improve reading skills through listening to sentences and poetry that is read aloud

Course content

6 sections • 45 lectures • 1h 46m total length

  • Introduction1:31

    Welcome to Improve Your Reading Skills Part 3: Beginning Consonants

    We are continuing to learn about letters and their sounds, and in this course we will be looking at consonant combinations.   You will learn about consonant blends, which are groups of 2 or 3 consonants in which you hear all the sounds in the word, and consonant digraphs, which are combinations of 2 letters that make one speech sound.


    Each lesson will feature either a consonant blend or digraph, and you will hear words and sentences with that specific pattern. Then we will follow up with a poem in which you will find words with that particular consonant combination that you just studied.

Requirements

  • Have a basic understanding of individual letters and sounds in the English language.

Description

Continue to improve your reading skills in Improve Your Reading: Phonics and Poetry Part 3: Beginning Consonant Sounds.  In this course, we continue our study of phonics, which is the study of the relationship of letters or letter patterns and their sounds. By learning the sounds of the different patterns, you can more easily pronounce words correctly.

In this course you will learn about beginning consonants sounds in letter combinations that are called consonant blends and consonant digraphs. These are 2-letter combinations that you will often see at the beginning of words

Consonant blends are letter combinations in which you hear the distinct sound of each letter, such as /bl/,  /st/, /dr/. Words that start with these blends include black, blue, study, stable, drive, and drop.

Consonant digraphs are letter combinations that together form a single sound, such as /sh/, /ch/, /qu/, /th/, and /wr/. Words that start with these combinations include share, shallow, church, churn, queen, quote, think, thought, write, and wring.

We will also study words that have consonant blends and digraphs together. These letter patterns include /shr/ and /sph/, and are seen in words such as shrink and sphere.

In each lesson, you will learn words that begin with the target consonant blend or digraph. Each word is read aloud so that you can hear its correct pronunciation as you read it to yourself. Then you will hear sentences using words with the particulars combination for that lesson. The lesson ends with a poem, and words with the target blend or digraph are highlighted. You can listen to the poems, and read as you follow along. This is great practice, and will help you improve your reading skills.


Who this course is for:

  • Students who want to improve their reading skills
  • Students who are learning English as a second language
  • Learners who want to review phonics to help them become better readers

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