Phonics Lessons / Resources

thanks for the phonics help.  I have a 2 part phonics song my CT gave me in the beginning of the school year: A-L and M-Z.  It's a good song for the students to learn the basic of phonics.

Letters Dd and Tt

Update: June 8, 2011 - D-T PPT with instructions slide at the beginning

Not to mention V/B, P/F or Z/J/CH - those consonant blends would hate to be forgotten, so BR/BL, FR/FL etc etc too!

IMHO, P/F in particular seems most likely to cause... embarrassing mispronunciations.. . in advanced and adult students. Many a Korean adult I've met I suspect (consciously or not) does not to distinguish between them when studying and just heavy-handedly overcompensates by making them all F (even nastier when you start getting into A/U confusion due to Korean romanisation quirks).

A former colleague of mine used to have the students run through the Genki English short vowels and hard consonant sounds phonics Abc song at the start of every 6th grade lesson as their welcoming song. Brilliant idea to revise and practise (but not to teach) I think. The songs rather to the point, so is less "lame" for older students than the usual A, a, apple songs.

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASBo2GpMSF5hZGc5dGJ6NXBfNjgzZzJyYmszZmQ&hl=en&authkey=CMb28ZcH

Paul - F/P was the one I was planning to do next...how did you know!

Since I have had great success withe MES-English Listening First curriculum and my students were ready for phonics, I use the Fun Fonix starter worksheets and a matching set from Enchanted Learning. I generally teach one letter of the alphabet per class (mine meet twice a week) and the students love to do them together so I've started creating powerpoints that use both worksheets. I have attached the file with the Matching Worksheets.  You can download the Fun Fonix worksheets here http://www.funfonix.com/intro/

also attached are my first three powerpoints

BarryFunEnglish has a great Phonics Song PPT that I use at the beginning of my 3rd grade classes to go over a couple of letters every class.  The file is too large to upload, so if you don't have a subscription, it won't do you much good.  For those who don't have a subscription, this website is really cute and you can go over individual letters: http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

W/H - ppt.

Just finished up a couple more.

Haven't used any except the review in class - so they may need a little help/additions - but here they are!

I'm big on teaching the little guys phonics. To that end, I've found http://www.starfall.com to be a lifesaver. It pairs nicely with the initial sounds phonics worksheets from bogglesworldesl.com, and when they are a bit higher level in their phonics study, Starfall also has some good printables.

To reinforce the letter sounds, I found a good, fun, to the point phonics ABC video: http://www.supersimpleabcs.com/videos/index.htm

Just a couple of PPTs Ive used in my Phonics classes. Hope they're helpful!

Here's a bomb game I found and adapted for my students... they must tell me all the words correctly.

Students get really competitive if someone else doesn't say the word properly. I also tell them minus points if they tell each other the answers if its my higher level afterschool class.

IMHO GEPIK is completely blinded by the importance of learning phonics at this early level. That's why I've decided to base my 2 wk winter camp on it. I'm teaching 2 hour session classes to 3,4 and 5,6 graders on alternating days.
I understand how dry and boring it is to learn for young kids. Since my camp kids are gonna be there because they want to be there, I want to make it as fun as possible for them.
2 hour sessions is long for any class, but for teaching phonics it's especially long. Any ideas and suggestions on coming up with an engaging/exciting theme (and activities) will be very much appreciated.
I've included my first contribution to this site, a document that gives korean translations to the various sounds of english vowels and consonants.

Some games that work well when teaching phonics are:

alphabet snatch game - you say a word and the students has to grab the correct letter or blend, hold it up and say it.
flyswat game - as above but they hit the sound or you say the sound and they hit a relevant picture.
whispering game - whisper a word or sound down the line, last person writes it on the blackboard or chooses a picture.
bomb game and bingo - you can always use these

phonics train (or caterpillar) - a kind of relay race, students pick up pictures and have to put them on the correct train or caterpillar (google it, you should find some examples)

my 1-4th grade students liked the koala phonics song. They also loved the electric company shock butcher (I used it for sh words) and begged for it again.

you could do a minimal pair exercise where students have to go to one side of the room or the other depending on the sound they hear - if they are wrong they are out until the next round.

I also played rhyming bingo - I said a word and the students had to circle a word that rhymed with that - good for teaching word families.

I hope that helps. 2 hours for phonics is quite a long time but I agree that it is important.

Here are some phonics workbooks for teaching English phonics to Korean students.  I find some of it is useful, but other parts are just pretty space-fillers and busywork (rather than well-designed educational activities).  Your mileage may vary!

I will upload them one at a time, as they are big files and the site doesn't like it when I try to post two at once.

Level 2 of the phonics book.

Level 3 (of 5).

Level 4 (of 5).

Level 5 (of 5).  Finished!  :)

Sorry for all of the separate posts.  I kept getting time-out errors when I tried to do more than one at once.  I hope some of this stuff is helpful to someone....

I've read many people have problems with phonics, and the pronunciations of letters.

I saw one of the teachers at one of my elementaries last year using the website http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f 

Its an easy alphabet song that introduced the 'common' sounds of letters, and it seemed to help the class she used it with. So I looked it up again this year, and thought I could use it for my winter camps... because the principal decided that the students must do speeches. GREAT - a group of grade 1-6's doing speeches when they struggle with pronunciation - okay... so they do 1 hour of phonics and 1 hour of speech work each day.

So the ABC song from the starfall website was introduced, and then I made the Starfall ABC's ppt to show the students what the man on the site is talking about. I went through, asked them the letters, and the sounds, and then what the picture was. We then sang the song through using the ppt so they had visuals.

And then followed through with the alphabet phonics game which is using a Mario template (made by shane teacher - dajeon). The students were told they had to tell me 1) the letter, 2) the sound of the letter and then 3) the word we'd just learned. If they got all 3 right, they got the points. The 6th graders were allowed to help the 1st and 2nd graders if they needed help, but they couldn't help anyone else. The class was also told that if the other team answered out of turn they got minus points (so they'd get minus whatever the other team got. eg: answering team gets 5 points, the calling out team gets -5 points).

They asked to play the game the following day because they'd enjoyed it so much. It didn't seem like 'learning' to them, and its helping improve their pronunciation. Their speeches have improved already, and they only got the speeches on Monday.

I agree that starfall is a good website and that phonics is important. This looks like a good lesson to use that.

My students also really enjoy this phonics chant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrebC_wlJM

And if you move on to more advanced phonics (not just single letter sounds) then some of the Electric company videos are pretty good.