This intriguing game helps promote verbal rehearsal to recall consonants and vowels. ABC123 prepares for letter and word recognition tasks and pre-reading skills. Students learn and practice the letters of the alphabet, their sounds, and their place in the alphabet through three different types of presentation. And a One, Two, Three helps develop phonemic awareness of syllables in words and short phrases. A word is presented auditorily and visually.
Students then drag down one colored block for each syllable in the word or phrase.
For extra help, words can be pronounced in syllable chunks. Users can decide whether the syllable chunks will be pronounced to aid in spelling or to provide a more natural English pronunciation. This CD is the first in a series and begins with learning the mouth movements necessary to make sounds. Games reinforce sound to symbol correlation, sound segmentation, blending, and recognition of syllables. The program encourages slow and steady progression from sound-symbol associations to the rules of English to rapid reading and spelling of 8th grade words.