By combining a strong curriculum with technology that helps students clearly hear individual phonemes and match them to frequent spellings, teachers can effectively engage a student's senses in the reading process. One of the most challenging tasks a teacher faces in teaching children to read is ensuring that their independent work is productive. Thanks to voice chip technology, teachers can easily provide customized learning experiences for each student - without having to be in 20 places at once. Modern voice chip technology creates a simple, intuitive and interactive learning experience to help teach children phonemic awareness, letter names, letter sounds, spelling and reading. It is important to note, however, that not all voice chips are created equal.
Quality varies widely from product to product.
To be effective, voice chips should feature clear, articulate human voices. After all, when you're trying to teach children the 44 different speech sounds that create all the words in the English language, the quality of those sounds is very important. Almost like a personal tutor, voice chips can give immediate and corrective feedback along the way as children work at their own pace. As the voice chips speak the names of letters of the alphabet and their phonic pronunciations in the context of specific words, children can listen to the sounds and speak along with the voice. Similarly, if they encounter an unfamiliar word in a sentence, they can try to sound it out on their own, and then choose to hear the voice sound it out correctly.