Phonics are important at our school. It is vital that every teacher teach the same phonics sounds. For this reason, this page has been created to allow you to hear and practice the sounds before teaching them.

Bear in mind that the phonic sound of a letter is a phoneme, (definition: the smallest sound unit in a word – often represented by a single letter ('a', 'm') but sometimes by a combination of two letters, as in a digraph).

Don't make the mistake of stretching out the sound of a phoneme, it is a very short sound.

Chinese students have particular difficulty pronouncing the "L", "R", and "V" sounds and particular difficulty distinguishing between "A" and "E" as well as ""B" and "D" phonemes.