Tim In fluent English, when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins in a vowel sound, we link the two sounds together without a pause in between them. So, an egg becomes anegg.

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that ...

Once born, they’re better prepared to take on more complex tasks like identifying vowels, consonants, and other unique characteristics of their native language.

Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple, consonant-vowel-consonant words – such as combining “b” or “c” with “-at” to make “bat ...

Instead, a “science of reading” — or phonics-based — approach to literacy means students are taught the individual sounds of vowels, consonants, groupings of letters, phonograms and other ...

CVC stands for consonant vowel consonant. These include words such as "cat" and "dog," which are at least 3 letters, beginning and ending with a consonant and a vowel in between.

They have found that word-initial consonants are, on average, around 13 milliseconds longer than their non-initial counterparts. The diversity of languages for which this effect was found suggests ...