{"id":234,"date":"2019-04-19T04:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T04:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2019-04-19T04:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T04:55:51","slug":"a-to-z-animal-chant-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/a-to-z-animal-chant-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A to Z Animal Chant New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I teach young learners English (ESL, EFL) I always spend a bit of time on the letters of the alphabet. In class I use flashcards with a letter and an image on it (A, apple, B, bird), or a video. More below the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADVefYZQykw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching the Alphabet without Phonics Sounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I first started teaching, all of the teachers around me were teaching letters with phonics sounds. In general, I see no problem with this. However, there are many different sounds for each letter. For example, say out loud &#8220;orange, owl, otter, orangutan&#8221; same letter &#8220;o&#8221; with different sounds.<\/p>\n<p>I did some research, and found that teaching just the letter name, and a word that it begins with is also excellent for learning. The students start to recognize that letters have different sounds. They also learn letter recognition, and vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>I made the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ADVefYZQykw\" target=\"_blank\">A to Z Alphabet Animal Chant<\/a> to use this idea of teaching a letter, and a word that starts with this letter. We also have on YouTube an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PujFIVtiECc\" target=\"_blank\">A To Z Vehicles chant.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend doing your own research and finding the best way to teach your students. I use a bit of phonics, and a bit of letter recognition, and so far I have had great results in getting my young students to learn to read in English. Happy teaching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I teach young learners English (ESL, EFL) I always spend a bit of time on the letters of the alphabet. In class I use flashcards with a letter and an image on it (A, apple, B, bird), or a video. More below the video: Teaching the Alphabet without Phonics Sounds When I first started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/a-to-z-animal-chant-new-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A to Z Animal Chant New Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,83],"tags":[101,90,125,17,12,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}