Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
French alphabet, phonemes, and letter patterns
Elaboration
- individual sounds for consonants and vowels, including diphthongs (e.g., au, eu, oi, ou, ui) and nasal vowels (e.g., an, ain, en, im, on, un)
- distinguishing similar phonemes (e.g., u versus ou, e versus eu, s versus z)
such as groupings of letters that make the same sound (e.g., au, aux, eau, ô, os) rhyming words, and letter patterns that have consistent pronunciations (e.g., ai, -ille, -ment, -tion)
keywords
phonemes
letter patterns