A big part of early school is learning to say the alphabet. How smart do we do it? You can can watch our videos to see how much rank stupidity there is in how we say the alphabet.
Here we will just show the super simple smart way to say the alphabet.
First, it’s important to teach two pieces: vowels and consonants. That difference is just part of learning a bit about what it is to be a human being. It brings in a good piece of phonemic awareness to in a simple logical way.
Vowels
So let’s say the vowel alphabet first. We always taught that the letter U is said like the word YOU. You may have noticed that the pronunciation of YOU is not a smart guide to the letter U. When you say the word BUD, you don’t say BYOUD. This nonsense is present for all the vowel letters so let’s get started with the smart way to say the vowel alphabet AEIOU.
There are just 5 very simple sounds on which all pronunciations are built
SA as in sought or father (Don’t worry if your dialect, Boston or many others is a little different, it all falls together nicely)
SI as in sit.
SE as in set.
SU as in soot
SO as in sore, what you say just before the R
All you have to say is SA SI SE SU SO using these pronunciations. You can even say SA SI SE SU SO as SOUGHT SIT SET SOOT SORE if you like.
That’s it, the whole vowel alphabet leading to all sounds you say. We won’t spell them out here, but just give one example to show how simple it all is. Say the word sit with a very long vowel. Now say it long again but put your hand under your jaw and push the jaw up. You will hear the word seat from sit, and see simply why we write that vowel as I plus up arrow ^. This shows you rais the tongue higher to get seat. All so simple and the same idea applies to all the arrows CRESS uses.
A big part of early school is learning to say the alphabet. How smart do we do it? You can can watch our videos to see how much rank stupidity there is in how we say the alphabet.
Here we will just show the super simple smart way to say the alphabet.
First, it’s important to teach two pieces: vowels and consonants. That difference is just part of learning a bit about what it is to be a human being. It brings in a good piece of phonemic awareness to in a simple logical way.
Vowels
So let’s say the vowel alphabet first. We always taught that the letter U is said like the word YOU. You may have noticed that the pronunciation of YOU is not a smart guide to the letter U. When you say the word BUD, you don’t say BYOUD. This nonsense is present for all the vowel letters so let’s get started with the smart way to say the vowel alphabet AEIOU.
There are just 5 very simple sounds on which all pronunciations are built
- SA as in sought or father (Don’t worry if your dialect, Boston or many others is a little different, it all falls together nicely)
- SI as in sit.
- SE as in set.
- SU as in soot
- SO as in sore, what you say just before the R
All you have to say is SA SI SE SU SO using these pronunciations. You can even say SA SI SE SU SO as SOUGHT SIT SET SOOT SORE if you like.
That’s it, the whole vowel alphabet leading to all sounds you say. We won’t spell them out here, but just give one example to show how simple it all is. Say the word sit with a very long vowel. Now say it long again but put your hand under your jaw and push the jaw up. You will hear the word seat from sit, and see simply why we write that vowel as I plus up arrow ^. This shows you rais the tongue higher to get seat. All so simple and the same idea applies to all the arrows CRESS uses.