PHONEMES: CONSONANT SOUNDS

What are Consonant sounds?  Confused...no need to be....let's put it all in context for you:

• There are 44 sounds (19 + 25) that make up the sounds of our English language.  

• 19 of the sounds we refer to as vowel sounds (because they use the vowels a, e, i, o, u or make the sounds of our vowels)

• 25 of the sounds we refer to as consonant sounds (see below - notice that there are no vowels)

• Each individual sound is sometimes referred to as a grapheme or phoneme.  

• We use the letters of the alphabet to write sounds down.  

• There are over 70 ways to spell these sounds, which we refer to as phonograms

Remember consonants are all the letters that are NOT vowels! Easy eh! (Vowels for those of you who are really rusty are: a,e,i,o,u)