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Basics of teaching English to beginners with phonological awareness

Updated: Mar 2, 2023


Teaching English through phonics method with teacher-made rhymes helps both the teacher and the child to develop their phonological awareness skills. Also, creating a transitional learning material as primer of phonetic alphabet helps children to become good listeners, speakers and later good readers.


In linguistics, the phonological awareness pertains to individual's awareness of the phonological structure of sounds and their relationship to speech organs, which should be deliberately developed by the teacher.


Examples of Phonetics Alphabet Rhymes for /b/ and /ch/ sounds

Bravo! Bravo! Brave boy

Bravo! Bravo! Blue-eyed boy

Brave boys bounce the ball

Big boy’s balloon is small

Bravo-boy-ball-n-blue

All these begin with /b/ sound

/b/-/b/-/b/ as in Bravo


Words for picture cards: Ball; Balloon; Boy; Blue

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Charlie is a charming child

Charlie sits on chair to chat

Charlie chews cheese to cherish

Charlie chases chicks with a bat


Words for picture cards: Child; Chair; Chick


Learning activities

  • Three stage rhyme recitation activity

  • Flash card activity for sight vocabulary

  • Matching sheet (Picture to picture; Word to Word; Word to picture)

  • Successive drawing sheet

  • Board game activity with ticking sheet

  • Housie game

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