Phonics

Phonics is a method of teaching reading and writing by developing learners' phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes.

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

The beginning sound of 'cat' is /k/.

The beginning sound of 'dog' is /d/.

The beginning sound of 'fish' is /f/.

A vowel is a speech sound in many languages that is typically represented by the letters A, E, I, O, U.

A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel and is typically represented by all other letters in the alphabet.

The letter 'b' makes the /b/ sound.

The letter 's' makes the /s/ sound.

The letter 'm' makes the /m/ sound.