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News Flash: Letters make noises. And not just when they step on legos. Today we'll talk about how people learn these noises and how they fit together.

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Transcript

00:03

[Dino and Coop singing]

00:13

Today, we want to talk about baby talk.

00:16

Don't worry, we won't talk about baby talk in baby talk. [Baby covered in feathers]

00:19

That'd be super irritating and weird.

00:22

We just mean that we want to talk about all of those sounds a baby makes before it knows [Baby with an adult face farts]

00:25

any words.

00:26

See, speaking starts with sounds – just like “goo-goo” and “ga-ga”––that

00:30

we then use like building blocks to make words.

00:33

We call this “phonics,” which is a term that describes the relationship between letters, [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

00:37

sounds, and meaning.

00:38

It's all about learning to recognize that certain letters have certain sounds, as well [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

00:42

as learning to recognize that certain sounds are either soft or hard.

00:45

Though we wouldn't recommend snuggling in bed with any sounds…let's leave that job [Girl looking scared in bed]

00:49

to the teddy bears.

00:50

Anyway, phonics isn't just about letter sounds –

00:52

it's about the sounds of letter combinations, too!

00:55

See, we've got our vowels... that's A, E, I, O and U.

00:58

And we also have our consonants, that's B, C, D, F.... well…you get the picture.

01:03

So while phonics allows us to recognize that an “L” makes a “luh” sound, it also

01:07

allows us to recognize many common letter combinations, too. [Glass of lemonade]

01:11

Like how an “l-d” sounds like “uhld” as in “old.”

01:15

And “l-t” sounds like “uhlt” as in “bolt.”

01:18

And “m-p” sounds like “uhmp” as in “lamp.”

01:21

Sometimes, letter combinations can sound differently depending on the word. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

01:25

For example, “c-h” sounds hard in words like “Chief” and “Choose” but sounds

01:30

soft in words like “choir” and “character.”

01:33

“S-c” also has both a hard and soft sound, like “scary” and “scold” versus

01:38

“science” and “scenic.”

01:40

Phonics also helps us to remember those so-weird-they-barely-make-any-sense sounds, [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

01:45

like how “p-h” actually makes

01:48

a “fff” sound like in “phone” and “phonetics.”

01:51

English is a wacky, wacky language. [Woman wearing a weird joker style costume]

01:54

But on the bright side, once you've practiced reading and using all of these sounds, you'll [Man reading in a classroom]

01:58

be able to decode and learn more and more difficult words in a jiffy!

02:02

In other words, reading is entirely built on these very basic sounds.

02:05

All thanks to phonics!

02:06

So get crackin', and pretty soon, words like this will be easy as pie… [List of long words]

02:10

Just…don't ask us to pronounce any of those… [Guy holding pies]

02:13

seriously, an "s" and a "g"? [The word sgraffito]

02:15

That's even worse than the whole "p-h" debacle.

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