Entries by KizPhonics

What is Phonics?

This question is more common than you may think. Without sounding too technical, phonics helps children to match sounds to letters of the alphabet and is often the first step in becoming fully literate.  Children learn that words are made up of sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes) represent these sounds. For instance, children learn that […]

Phonics Lesson Plans Made Easy

The Kiz Phonics Resources & Structured Guide to Teaching a Child How to Read  It is not very often that you come across the perfect combination of resources to help kids learn in a progressive and structured manner. That’s KizPhonics for you - a systematic curriculum for teaching kids to read with synthetic phonics. It […]

The Alphabetic Principle

The alphabetic principle is the idea that letters and letter patterns represent spoken language. The alphabetic principle lays the foundation for reading words. Children need to identify, name, write letters and associate them with sounds at the very beginning of a literacy course. A good knowledge of letter names, shapes and sounds is a good […]

Print Awareness

Print awareness is an essential pre-reading skill, which teaches children that books are made up of words and that these words mean something. It makes children become aware of the fact that when adults read a book, they are not just making up the words by looking at pictures in the book. They are actually […]

Phonics vs. Phonetics: What’s the difference?

In order to appreciate the importance of phonics in English language education it is necessary to fully understand what phonics actually is. Many people often confuse phonics with phonetics so first of all we need to clearly define these terms. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds in a language and is focused purely on […]

Short ‘E’ Word Families Game : ell, end, ent, est

Learning Objectives: Built around words with the short vowel ‘e’, these phonics games will help children review and practice many three-letter word families or word patterns. Word families are a group of words that have a similar sound and writing pattern. They often rhyme and are perfect for teaching together. Words with the following common […]

Short ‘E’ Word Families Game : ed, eg, em, en, ep, et

Learning Objectives: Built around words with the short vowel ‘e’, these phonics games will help children review and practice many two-letter word families or word patterns. Word families are a group of words that have a similar sound and writing pattern. They often rhyme and are perfect for teaching together. Words with the following common […]

Short ‘A’ Word Families Game : at, an, am, ab, ag, ap, ad

Learning Objectives: Built around words with the short vowel ‘a’, these phonics games will help children review and practice many two-letter word families or word patterns. Word families are a group of words that have a similar sound and writing pattern. They often rhyme and are perfect for teaching together. Words with the following common […]

Short ‘u’ Phonics Warmer Song

Song: Short ‘u’ Warmer Song Learning Objectives: The goal of this song is for teachers to use when starting a phonics lesson that involves using the short ‘u’ to blend and read simple words. This is especially useful for the kindergarten levels. It is a great TPR song. How to Teach:   Stick the letter […]

Short ‘O’ Phonics Warmer Song

Song: Short ‘o’ Warmer Song Learning Objectives: The goal of this song is for teachers to use when starting a phonics lesson that involves using the short ‘o’ to blend and read simple words. This is especially useful for the kindergarten levels. It is a great TPR song. How to Teach:   Stick the letter […]

Short ‘I’ Phonics Warmer Song

Song: Short ‘i’ Warmer Song Learning Objectives: The goal of this song is for teachers to use when starting a phonics lesson that involves using the short ‘i’ to blend and read simple words. This is especially useful for the kindergarten levels. It is a great TPR song. How to Teach:   Stick the letter […]

Short ‘E’ Phonics Warmer Song

Song: Short ‘e’ Warmer Song Learning Objectives: The goal of this song is for teachers to use when starting a phonics lesson that involves using the short ‘e’ to blend and read simple words. This is especially useful for the kindergarten levels. It is a great TPR song. How to Teach:   Stick the letter […]

Short ‘A’ Phonics Warmer Song

Song: Short ‘a’ Warmer Song Learning Objectives: The goal of this song is for teachers to use when starting a phonics lesson that involves using the short ‘a’ to blend and read simple words. This is especially useful for the kindergarten levels. It is a great TPR song. How to Teach:   Stick the letter […]

Mouse & Cow Song

Song:  Mouse & Cow Song (diphthong /au/ 'ow & ou' song) Learning Objectives: This phonics song helps to teach and practice the double vowel sound (diphthong)  /au/ as in mouse and cow.  This song is adapted from our phonics story book. The song helps learners review a couple of words with the /au/ sound in […]

Mike Rides a Bike Song

Song:  Mike Rides a Bike (long 'i' song) Learning Objectives: This phonics song helps to teach and practice the long vowel 'i' and the silent 'E' in words like - Mike, rides, kite, bike.  Point out that without the silent 'E', the word will be read with a short vowel sound - ride/rid, kite/kit. The […]

Bunny & Bug Song

Song:  Bunny & Bug (short 'u' song) Learning Objectives: This phonics song helps to teach and practice the short vowel 'u' and word families (ug, unny, uzz). This song is adapted from our phonics story book. Also check out the stories section here: https://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-readers/ After teaching the song, read the story. You may also teach […]

Fox, Dog, Long Song

Song:  Fox, Dog, Log (short vowel 'o' song) Learning Objectives: This phonics song helps to teach and review the short vowel 'o' and word families (ox, og). This song is adapted from our phonics story book. Also check out the stories section here: https://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-readers/ After teaching the song, read the story. You may also teach […]

Man, Cat, Rat Song

Song:  Man Cat Rat (short  'a' song) Learning Objectives: This phonics song helps to review the short vowel 'a' and word families (at, an, ad, ap, ast, atch). This song is adapted from our phonics story book. Also check out the stories section here: https://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-readers/ After teaching the song, read the story. You may also […]

ABC Sound Song

Song: Alphabet & Sounds of the ABC song Learning Objectives: This is the ABC letters of the alphabet song with a spin. This song teaches both the 26 graphemes of the alphabet and 26 sounds. It is a good song for introducing learners to the idea that letters make sounds. The song raises their phonemic […]

Phonics Methods Used on KizPhonics

Kiz Phonics is a direct systematic phonics program, which uses an eclectic mix of analytics, analogy and synthetic phonics methods to develop literacy skills in children at an early age. All phonemic lessons are not created equal. Therefore, a methodology that employs a variety of teaching techniques is a winning formula. Kiz Phonics provides a […]