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K12 Phoneme Videos app for iPhone and iPad


4.9 ( 6039 ratings )
Education
Developer: Stride Inc.
Free
Current version: 1.0.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 Feb 2013
App size: 39.46 Mb

K12 Phoneme Videos lets students, parents, and teachers hear and see American English phonemes—the basic speech sounds that make up words—pronounced correctly by an expert speaker. Watch and listen to the correct pronunciation for the sounds of vowels, consonants, digraphs, vowel digraphs, and r-controlled vowels.

With K12 Phoneme Videos you can hear and see an expert model proper enunciation of these sounds. Seeing the way the mouth forms a sound and hearing an expert say it clearly can be critical in helping early readers or language learners master the basic building blocks of American English.

Features
•44 brief videos of phonemes and their sounds being pronounced correctly in a model word, including:
oShort vowels
oLong vowels
oConsonants
oDigraphs like /ch/ or /th/
or-controlled vowels like /ar/ or /er/

•An informative “Phoneme FAQ” that describes how phonemes combine to make words and explains the sometimes tricky terminology reading experts use to refer to these sounds.

•Video format is perfect for parents or reading specialists working with students who are just learning to read or for adults who are learning English as a foreign language.

The K12 Phoneme Videos series was created by K12 Inc. as part of its comprehensive Language Arts curriculum. To find out more about K12 virtual schools and online classes for K–12 students, visit http://www.k12.com/what-is-k12/.

For more age-appropriate apps, visit http://www.k12.com/mobile-apps/.

For help with technical problems, e-mail [email protected].