The document discusses vowels and consonants in the English language. It defines phonemes as the smallest units of sound in words. It provides examples of words that have different numbers of phonemes and phonemes that occur in different parts of words. The document also discusses blending phonemes to form words and segmenting words into individual phonemes.

1. The Alphabets and Their Sounds

2. Consonants VS. Vowels 5 main vowels in the English language: Consonants: All other letters that are not vowels. * b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, M, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z *

3. Vowels, a closer look…

4. Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in a word. For example: The word “ big ” in Big Bird has 3 phonemes… /b/, /i/, /g/ The word “ bird ” is a little more tricky. How many phonemes can you Recognize in the word “ bird ”? Big Bird

5. Phonemes can be anywhere throughout the word… In the word “hat”, the first phoneme is /h/. In the word “cow”, the middle phoneme is /o/. In the word “can”, the last phoneme is /n/.

6. Phonemes may consist of more than one letter… In the word “ sh oe”, the / sh / is a phoneme. Can you find a phoneme in the word “clock” that consists of more than one letter?

7. Some phonemes may sound like other phonemes, depending on their usage. Example: In the word “cat”, the /c/ can be Mistaken for the phoneme /k/. Another example, in the word “phone”, the /ph/ can be mistaken for the phoneme /f/.

8. Blending VS. Segmenting Segmenting: Being able to break apart a word into phonemes. Blending: Being able to put phonemes together to form words. BAT = B + A + T VS. B + A + T = BAT

11. Great Job Everyone! Next time we are going to learn about Putting words together to form sentences !