Phonics
Phonics
Phonics is about recognizing alphabets, knowing their unique pronunciation and also understanding the typical nature of each word-sound. It’s about phonetics or largely understanding the verbal strokes that are very much important in communication. English is a universal language and hence it is important to know about verbal inflexions, the movement and sound of each world. Generally speaking English correctly requires a lot of effort and hard work. The best way is to enhance the vocabulary and also understand the sound of each alphabet.
The basic bifurcation of consonants and vowels is what alphabets in English are about. As communication is vital and English is important it is a good idea to learn about new skills in the language. For the same, it is certainly essential that we learn the intricacies of the phonics or phonetics value. Enrolling the child in school is just a part of learning for parents too.
Vowels, mixing consonants, long vowels, exclamations are requiring a different kind of movement of tongue and lip. This adds clarity and also gives more confidence to the speaker. A prelude to reading, phonics is important to understand so that the words come naturally to the reader in the later stages. The initial phase is a learning or rather re-producing phase where the teacher imparts training via modules, games, actions and simple lines like ‘L – lick the lolly – lllll’. Hereby there is cooperation, understanding and easy-approach that are beneficial for children as well as adults.
The beginners to phonics are usually inducted in groups and participation is very much essential. Each word has a typical sound. Classes for phonics are done for elders too especially to erase out any other language accent which the student is more conversant with. With phonics, it is possible to deliver an eloquent and standard English speaking method. Though it is easy to read in our mind and also learn the alphabets, children need to learn the right sound of each word.
The minor changes of pronouncing ‘V’ and understanding the difference about using ‘W’ is much more than biting the lip. As children have a very high grasping power, early induction or introduction to phonics is important so that their confidence level is high. Most schools have phonics lessons in their syllabus in the pre primary classes. It is a novel idea for such schools to also induct training sessions for parents.
Private classes are also beneficial and group sessions ensure a lot of fun and rhythmic actions/animated series which help in getting the sound right. The animated versions like mimicking a cat for ‘C’ are very interesting for a child. This is also a means for a teacher to bond well with the child and also a major role in the fun-way-learning that is a priority of most schools.