EXPERIENCE INITIATIVESOME MEANSURES TO TEACH PHONICS EFFECTIVELY FOR GRADE 3 STUDENTS AT THANH SON PRIMARY SCHOOL Writer: Bui Thi Thanh Nhan Career: Teacher School: Thanh Son primary sc
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SOME MEANSURES TO TEACH PHONICS EFFECTIVELY
FOR GRADE 3 STUDENTS
AT THANH SON PRIMARY SCHOOL
Writer: Bui Thi Thanh Nhan Career: Teacher
School: Thanh Son primary school Subject: English
THANH HOA, 2021
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1.INTRODUCTION1.1 The reasons of choosing topic
2.4 The Effectiveness of the Experience Initiative for Education,mySelf, Colleagues and Schools
3 CONCLUSIONS AND PROPOSALS
- The general conclusion
- Proposals
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English is getting a lot of attention from people It is not a hobby for somegifted English but also necessities Foreign language is a bridge for cooperation, development and exchange between countries together One important thing is that everyone wants to use English perfectly and fluently They can use it as their "mother tongue" However, to help students get what they want to be effective, English teachers need to use their method appropriate to each age level, use their knowledge to teach their students Beginning students of English often say that their top priorities are to know grammar well and to learn as manywords and everyday phrases as possible Many students think that phonetics is a luxury that they can do without It's a big mistake to underestimate the
importance of pronunciation If you want to communicate in English, you need
to speak English Speaking to people is the only way to communicate Well, youcan exchange written messages, of course Or use gestures to show what you want to say But seriously, you need to know how to pronounce what you want
to say How you say something is as important as what you say It means that it
is necessary for you to acquire standard correct English pronunciation if you want to understand English speakers and want them to understand you
The use of correct English pronunciation can do the opposite understandwhat he said, and also understand the opposite easier and more accurate Thelanguage skills are closely related to each other; skills to support other skills
Correct pronunciation, therefore, is not only good for oral skills, but also tounderstand better for listening However, the pronunciation is a difficult skill;
without the guidance and regular exercise, positive, the progress will be virtuallyimpossible Besides, there are so many different factors related to teaching,learning methods, the influence of the mother tongue or conditions interact withnative English speakers also do not much affect the progress of learners
From the above reasons, I strongly research and write the experience
initiative named "Some meansures to teach phonics effectively for grade
3 students at Thanh Son primary school”.
I decided to choose this topic with the desire to help students learn English welland can communicate in English Language learners communicate not onlycorectly but also self confidently in lessons This is more excited than they arewilling to learn in order to improve their English pronunciation
1.2- Researching purpose.
Developing language (oral skills) through phonics to teach English toyoung learners
Developing skills (reading - speaking - pronunciation well)
1.3- Object for studying.
Some meansures to teach phonics effectively
1.4- The methods of researching.
- Attend classes, learn from your peers, and some of your own
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- Observe the knowledge acquisition of students in the teaching process
- Studying teaching materials, collecting materials and teaching materials from the Internet
2.1 The basis theory of experimentat creation:
Through a lot of research material, as well as a combination of theory andpractice, we need to rely on the basis of the following reasoning:
Faced with a problem of teaching and learning that I think to figure out away to teach phonics, and the work that I have written to teach phonics method
in a class Teaching phonics to help students create atmosphere languagelearning correct pronunciation of words in lessons Much purpose of teachingphonics in a language class is not intended to make students capable pronouncedsimilar to the native because it is not practical, unless the school has a specialtalent and highly motivated The goal is to teach phonics to help students gain
an ability to pronounce correctly at a certain level to be able to communicatewhat they want to talk with other people Phonics is a teaching method used tohelp children learn to read Phonics breaks down words into individual soundsand syllables and shows children how each sound fits together to make up aword Children taught with phonics must learn the different vowel sounds,consonants and regular rules of English grammar Due to the learner's nativelanguage affects the pronunciation teaching English to people who need to have
a certain understanding of the sound system of the learner’s mother tongue tofirst guess the difficulties and advantages of learner’s pronunciation Phonicshelps your child learn to read and spell Without this ability, your child cannot
be fully literate Words are like codes and phonics teaches children how to crackthe reading code Phonics is therefore an important part of any readingdevelopment program That is the reason Ministry of Education put on phonicslessons to Primary English
2.2 The basis reality before using experimentat creation:
Being a teacher, I love my job, love my children so I always study thepsychology of primary school age children (especially pupils in grade 3) Theyare also at the age of eating, sleeping and the giddy They remember fast butforget quickly, especially with English subject which is a fascinating subject butdifferent from their mother tongue, so they do not have the help when they donot understand at home They can only be studied with teachers and friends inclass, the fact that I teach in rural schools, many parents do not understanddeeply the importance and necessity of the English subject and only focus oncultural subjects like Mathematics, Vietnamese
-The majority of students are not paying attention and investing inforeign languages, they prepare the lesson very sparingly, to deal when theylearn this subject very bad Since then, a number of children with psychologicalbored with learning English During school hours, the majority of them are
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participate in learning lessons very little
Therefore, making interest and consolidating students' knowledge is an
extremely important and regular work Because this affects a lot of to the
students, a fundamental factor affecting the process of learning a language:
To having the learning quality of the children achieve the best results, it is
not an easy thing So how do they form and develop learning skills most
comprehensive? How do they love, deepen their knowledge of the phonics
lesson? By any way to help students understand the lesson but not boring, I
think that the lesson must be really charismatic, atmosphere during school hours
interesting and relaxing
The organization of teaching English in primary schools meets the needs
of students in learning a foreign language elementary and accordants with the
requirements of educational development On the other hand, learning English
in primary school will help students get a certain knowledge of English to be
able to learn English better when they are at junior high school Pronounciation
in the general case, particularly in primary schools has long been a problem
Many students encounter new words they do not know how to pronounce Often
teachers must International Phonetic form and read to students Some times the
students forget how to pronounce it late In practically, teaching at my school, I
notice that some of them have the ability to read and pronounce very well
Besides, there are some children who have difficulty in pronunciation They are
afraid of the wrong director, afraid of friend’s laugh, resultingly they are shy
saying, less communicate and read the words As well as students
mispronounce, this leads to make a marked accent and intonation wrong So to
have methods of teaching reading - speaking - pronunciation well
Since then I checked the quality survey between the first semester of third
graders, and the results showed that:
Class Students Mark 9-10 Mark 7-8 Mark 5-6 Mark under 5
After that I conducted the survey to interest in their learning
The results showed that:
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Students can participate in meaningful communicating activities through theinteresting phonics activities
2.3 The solutions for solving the problems:
2.3.1 The general solutions:
- Observe the actual situation of students Talk with them to find out the feeling, aspirations, problems they meet in the process of learning English
- Study materials, books, magazines newspapers education read textbooks, teacher’sbooks and prepare the suitable games
- Attend and exchange experiences with colleagues
- Summary and draw experience in the teaching process
- Interview directly pupils after the lessons they are participated in the games with thelessons which they are not joined the games
- The attention of the school facilities to create conditions for teachers and students can participate in the games
- Encourage children to participate in computer games such as crossword in English,work square in English…or watch cartoons in English on TV to attract them into the process of gameorganization during class hours in a natural and effective way
2.3.2 The process of phonics.
An hour of phonics will be effective if the teacher follows a clear, specificsyllabus that makes the syllables easy for the student
- The teacher reads the words containing the sound they are learning, the student listens
- The teacher facing the students to read the sound several times so that the studentcan hear clearly and observe the movement of the mouth, lips, teeth, tongue of the teacher whenpronounced This
- The teacher reads a few words that contain the sound they are learning, the student reads
- Teacher write words up on the board
- The teacher describes the pronunciation (position of the tongue, lips, teeth) Theteacher hangs up the diagram showing the location of the tongue, lips, teeth when pronouncing andexplaining in detail so students understand
Ask the students to repeat the words on the board and then call each group repeatedly Finally, the teacher called some students repeatedly
- According to the above process, the teacher introduces the second tone
- Compare the difference between the second and the first
There are 44 sounds in the English language, which we put together to formwords Some are represented by one letter, like 't', and some by two or more,like 'ck' in duck and 'air' in chair Children are taught the sounds first, then how
to match them to letters, and finally how to use the letter sounds for reading and
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1 Long vowel /i:/
Introduction: /i:/ is a long vowel sound
Make your mouth wide, like a smile /i:/
Your tongue touches the sides of your teeth /i:/
It's pronounced /i:/ /i:/
Identify the vowels which are pronounce /i:/
Groups: ea (-) ee, e-e -e ei(-), (-)ese, ie i are pronouced /i:/
In the unit 18: group ea (-) is pronouced /i:/
Eg: reading
2 Short vowel /I/
Introduction:
/I/ is a short vowel sound
Make your mouth a bit less wide than for /i:/
Your tongue is a bit further back in your mouth than for /i:/
It's pronounced /i/ /i/ Identify the vowels which are pronounced /i/ dentify thevowels which are pronounce /i/
- Groups: a, (-) ear, (-) eer, (-) ier (-), (-) ere, i(-), e, are pronouced /i/ In unit 17: group i (-)
is pronouced /i:/
Eg: Ship
3 Short vowel /e/
Introduction: /e/ is a short and relaxed sound
Open your mouth wide
It's pronounced /e/ /e/
Identify: “e (-), (-) ead, (-) eath, (-)air, are” are pronouced /e/
In unit 5: group e is pronouced /e/
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4 Short vowel /æ/
Introduction: /æ/ is a short sound
Open your mouth wide
It's pronounced /æ/ /æ/
Identify the vowels which are pronounce /æ/
“a" is pronounced / æ / in the following cases: In one-syllable words that end inone or more consonants
In unit 5: “a” is pronouced /æ/
Eg: Cup
6 Long vowel / ɑː/
Introduction: tongue down and back, mouth open wide nor narrow not too (see figure)
Identify the vowels which are pronounced / ɑː/: “ar(-)”
In unit 20: “ar” is pronouced / ɑː /Eg: Far
7 Short vowel /ɒ/
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Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɒ/: “o (-) and ong”
In unit 9 and 16: “o” is pronouced / ɒ /Eg: dog orange
8 Long vowel /ɔː/
Introduction: The tongue moves back, the rear blade raises, lip rounds andexpand Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɔː/: “all, au, aw, wa, or, os,oar, ore, our”
In unit 18: “aw” is pronouced / ɒ /Eg: draw
In unit 20: “or” is pronouced / ɒ/
Eg: North
9 Short vowel /ə/
Introduction This is a very short vowel When pronouncing tongue forward andslightly upward
Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ə/: “a, e, o, u,"
The vowels like a, e, i, o, u in part of a word to emphasize that can be pronounced
as / ə / or / ɪ / examples from word “accept”, letter “a” pronounced /
ə / as it is not the accented stress) In unit 16, “o” is pronouced / ə / Eg: Parrot
10 Diphthong /eɪ/
Introduction: pronounce slightly extended from / e / gradual transite to and end in / ɪ / Audio / ɪ / pronounce very short and quick
identify the vowels which are pronounced /eɪ/: “a-e, ai, ay, ea, ey, eigh, ate,”
In unit 19: “a-e and ai ” are pronouced / eɪ /
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11 Diphthong /aɪ/
Introduction: sound begins with a vowel in the middle of the tongue / ɑː / and raises on the word / ɪ /, when pronouncing / ɑː / mouth opens wide, to / ɪ / mouth restrictes
Identify the vowels which are pronounced / aɪ /: “y, ui, I, ie, ye, i-e, y-e, igh, ild,ind,”
In unit 17: “i-e” is pronouced / aɪ /Eg: Kite
13 Consonant /b/
Introduction: Voiced consonants, bilabial sounds and turn slightly negative How to pronounce: the first two lips close and then push slightly from the inside out to create a sound, a sound similar / p /
Identify: Only consonants "b" is pronounced as / b / When it stands at the top of
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In unit 2: “b” is pronouced / b /Eg: Bye
pressure, this time pushing the tongue forward quickly turned into sound / t /
Identify: Only consonants "t" is pronounced as / t / When it stands at the top of
a word, the end of a word or the word with end “te” It is also pronounced when standing after S
In unit 2: “t” is pronouced / t /Eg: Tony
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Identify the letters which are pronounced /k/:
- "S" head of a word "s" inside a word and not in between two vowels
- “S” "at the end of a word to go after f, k, p, t and gh
Identify the letters which are pronounced /ʃ/:
1 "c" is pronounced / ʃ / in front ia, ie, io, iu, ea, ious, 2
"sh" is pronounced / ʃ / when standing at the beginning or end of one words