Pixie Phonics

🧚🏻‍♀️Good morning!

TH-R-EE✅ CH-R-EE❌
B-E-D✅ B-E-T❌
M-U-G✅ M-U-G❌

Hi friends I had some time to myself this morning. I think it might show. 🤪

Introduciiiing, Little B 🍌. 👏🏻🥳🎉🫴🏻🕺🏻

Lil B and I are going to share another 3 words typically misspelled and mispronounced during my tuition classes. Usually seen+heard in children aged 3–6yrs.

If you have the time, maybe you can help your child if he/she needs to pay extra attention to these words.

Stay ripe and bright and let’s teach our kids how to say and spell these words right!

Toooooodles and sprinkles of potassium,

♥️,
Aly

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♥️R-E-D ✔️ R-E-T ❌
🪙G-O-L-D ✔️ G-O ❌
🟢G-R-EE-N✔️ G-R-I-N❌

When I give tuition, I often notice that local children can find certain colours tricky to pronounce and spell.

Common examples of these colors are red, gold, and green. Sometimes it can be challenging for them because of how they hear these words being said. Very often, children spell these words based on how they hear or say them.

If you think your child may not know how to say/spell em right, take 2 mins to help them!

Enjoy spending time with your child as you guide him/her,

toooodles

❤️,
Aly

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D-O-G
SH-I-P
P-I-G

When I give tuition , I often notice that children aged 3-6yrs can find certain words tricky to pronounce and spell.

Common examples include dog, ship, and pig.

Simple words, yet surprisingly challenging for many young learners in Singapore.

Your child doesn't need to memorize how to spell these words and more worksheets are not needed.

Instead, teach them how to say these words the right way, and to spell what they hear.

Enjoy teaching your child,

❤️,

Aly

🧚‍♀️Letter sounds before letter names. Try it!

⚪Phonics teaches children how to read through letter sounds, not letter names.

⚪Research shows that focusing on letter-sound relationships builds phonemic awareness.

➡️Parents, if you don’t know how to sing it this way, don’t worry, I got youuuuu!

Sing along with me once you've got it! 😝

No actually, sing along with your little Pixie! ☝️

Hee hee 🤗.

Hope this is helpful,

🎶, 🔠 +💖,

Aly

(There are more than 26 letter sounds,but this is a great start!)

8️⃣Sound of the Day8️⃣: Eigh/eigh

Hellooo today's sound of the day is what the letters EIGH give us which is the long a sound, A.

Four letters which give us just one sound.

🧚‍♀️Heard in:

⚪EIGH-T
⚪W-EIGH
⚪N-EIGH

EXCEPTION word➡️HEIGHT
(where eigh gives a long I sound)

List of words at the end of the video for you to go through with your child ❣️

Happy learning parents!

🩷,
Aly

⛅Sound of the Day⛅: Ay/ay

Helloooo Happy New Year🤗!

Today’s sound is the digraph /ay/. Two letters that work together to make one sound.

/ay/is found at the end of a word.

🧚‍♀️Heard in:

⚪D-AY
⚪P-AY
⚪P-L-AY

Happy learning parents!

🩷,
Aly

🎨Sound of the Day🎨: Ai/ai

Helloooo🤗!

Today’s sound of the day is the digraph /ai/. Two letters that work together to make one sound.

/ai/ is found at the beginning or in the middle of a word.

🧚‍♀️Heard in:

(Beginning)
⚪AI-M
⚪AI-D

(Middle)
⚪ P-AI-N
⚪ R-AI-N
⚪ P-AI-N-T B-R-U-SH

Happy learning parents, hope this makes it easier to understand when teaching your kids how to decode words.

🩷 My lil chickens and I,
Aly

🐚Sound of the Day🐚: SH/sh

Helloooo🤗!

Today’s sound is the digraph /sh/. Two letters that work together to make one sound.

🧚‍♀️Heard in:
(Beginning)
⚪SH-IR-T
⚪SH-OE
⚪SH-E-LL

(Middle)
⚪ M-I-L-K SH-A-K-E
⚪ F-I-SH-I-NG
⚪ F-L-A-SH L-IGH-T

(End)
⚪ P-U-SH
⚪ C-A-SH
⚪ FL-A-SH

Happy learning!

🩷 My lil chicken and I,
Aly

🐥Sound of the Day🐥: Ch

Hi Good morning!

Today’s sound of the day /ch/.

Two letters that work together to make one sound, a digraph.

There are many more digraphs, I will start with Ch for now. 😅

🧚‍♀️Heard in:
(Beginning)
⚪CH-AI-N
⚪CH-I-L-D
⚪CH-I-N

(Middle)
⚪ T-EA-CH-ER
⚪ B-U-TCH-ER

(End)
⚪ B-EA-CH
⚪ P-I-N-CH
⚪ P-U-N-CH

Happy learning!

🩷,
Aly

🪼Sound of the Day🪼: Jj/Jj

Hi Good morning this is our last sound of the day for this series and our sound is /j/!

🧚‍♀️Heard in:

(Beginning)
⚪J-A-M
⚪J-AR
⚪J-E-LL-Y

(Middle)
⚪ E-N-J-OY
⚪ S-U-B-J-E-C-T
⚪ A-D-J-U-S-T

🧚‍♀️Most of the time,
/J/ doesn’t like to be at the end of a word.
If you hear a /j/ sound at the end, it’s probably a tricky spelling like -ge or -dge (like in cage or fudge).

🩷I hope all the videos sharing basic sounds have been helpful to you. I've had many parents share with me that their reading journey didn't involve phonics, which has left them feeling like they can't help their children with phonics because they don't know what the sounds of letters are.

Well, now you know!

Good luck!

🩷,

Aly

🦊🌸Sound of the Day🌸🦊: Xx/Xx

Hi Good morning this is our second last sound of the day, and we have /x/.

🧚‍♀️Heard in:

(Beginning)
⚪F-O-X
⚪S-I-X
⚪W-A-X

Things to know about qu:

🧚‍♀️ "X"Phonics Rules :

⚪/X/ usually makes a /ks/ sound.
Imagine k next to s, now blend!

🪄 Where does X with the /ks/ sound appear in words?

⚪End of short words ( the most common)

⚪Also, it can be the middle/second sound in a word.

Heard in words such as:

➡️e-X-cited
➡️e-X-tra
➡️ta-X-i
➡️o-X-ford

I hope this has been helpful in some way,

🩷,

Aly