By Joyce Melton Pag s, Ed. Trabalenguas Mexicanos by Robert J. Haddad Tongue twisters are tongue-tangling sentences that have a number of words starting with the same sound.
Consonants are the most phonetically consistent sounds in the English language.
Further, tongue twisters support an awareness of how language works. A quick look at the tongue twisters mentioned earlier shows sentences with easily identifiable nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Finally, the humor in tongue twisters helps children focus on meaning while reinforcing their understanding of phonics and sentence structure. Good readers use phonics, language cues, and meaning to identify words while they're reading. These three types of cues make up cueing systems that the reader uses to process written information.