Module 4- Reading Skills

Module Overview
Reading aloud is widely recognized as the single most important activity leading to language development. Among
other things, reading aloud builds word-sound awareness. Just as one practices a musical instrument or an athletic
skill; students need daily reading practice if they are to improve their reading skills. Extensive reading has been linked
to improvement in general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency, and reading comprehension.
This module will help you in pronouncing some of the common words used in daily life. It will help you to understand
the on correct pronunciation and recognition of words.

Module Objective

At the end of the module, you will be able to,

✓ Explain the importance of reading
✓ Explain the importance of Interpretation
✓ Explain the importance of Articulation in terms of pronunciation, clarity and fluency
✓ Learn the sound of each letter in English

Consonant Sound L and R

A. Practice these sounds slowly, until you can say them with clear contrast
ara, ala, ala, ara, aray, alay, alay, aray, aree, alee, aro, alo, alo, aro
eera, aala, eeray, eelee, eero, eelo
aria, alai, aru, alu, alere, ara, aro, eelo
la, lay, lee, lo, lu, ra, ray, ree, ro, ru
ra, la, ray, ree, ro, lo, ru, lu.

B. Practice saying the following:

1. Is it right? No it is Wrong
2. Is it light? No it is dark
3. What's a lamb? A baby sheep
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 4. What's a ram? A male sheep
5. Where's the load? It is in the truck
6. Where's the road? It is in the city

Practice Consonant Sounds

Practice the sound [p] as in PEN

1. peel – piece – peer – pick – pin – pen – pair – pack – palm – part – pause – pour – port – pond – pool – pure –
poor – put – pull – person – public – pay – pain – pie – pound – point – pole – post;
2. please – plenty – plan – plural – plug – play – split – splendid – splash – splurge;
3. pretty – press – practice – prune – pray – price – proud – prose – spring – spread – spray – sprout;
4. speak – spin – spend – span – sport – spoon – space – spy – spoil – spoke;
5. paper – pepper – happen – happy – creepy – tipping – kept – napkin – apple – people – staple;
6. tap – nap – cup – lip – drop – trip – keep – help – soup – tape – ripe – rope – grasp – crisp

Practice the sound [b] as in BE

1. be – beat – beer – big – bit – best – bed – bare – bad – back – balm – bar – bore – boss – bought – boom – beauty
– book – burn – burst – bus – bun – baby – buy – bound – boy – bone;
2. bleed – bless – black – block – blue – blur – blood – blame – blind – blow;
3. breed – bring – bread – brand – broad – brother – brain – break – bright – brown – broken;
4. habit – rabbit – ribbon – robber – robot – absent – number – able – terrible – rouble – gamble – tumble;
5. tab – lab – stub – rub – rib – rob – knob – Bob – robe – bulb

Practice the sound [t] as in TEN

1. team – tip – tell – tan – task – tar – tall – torn – taught – top – tool – tune – tour – took – turn – ton – take – time
– town – toy – toe – tone;
2. treat – trip – trend – track – true – trust – train – trace – try – street – strong – struck – straight – strike – stroke;
3. steam – stick – step – stare – stand – star – store – stop – student – stir – stun – stable – style – stout – stone;
4. city – pity – kitten – total – potato – writer – later – better – little – rattle – title – twenty – mister – pizza;
5. set – meet – rate – write – part – coat – short – tact – draft – belt – point – spent – kept – last – taste – roast;
looked – stopped – laughed – passed – released – reached – washed;

Practice the sound [d] as in DO

1. deep – deal – dear – dip – den – dare – Dan – dark – door – dog – do – duty – during – dirt – dull – day – die –
down – don't;
2. dream – drink – drip – dress – drag – draw – drop – drew – drum – drain – dry – drown – drone;
3. lady – hidden – admire – edition – Edward – heading – idle – riddle – cradle – handle – bundle;
4. kid – did – read – ride – made – mad – add – odd – cord – heard – would – could – send – kind – wind – round;
5. played – studied – called – bored – lived – turned – managed – hated – started – needed – ended

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Practice the sound [k] as in KATE
keen – keep – kill – kiss – Ken – chemistry – can – cap – calm – car – call – corn – cool – cute – cook – curse – come –
Kate – case – kind – coast – cone;
clean – clear – click – class – clue – clerk – club – claim – climb – cloud – clown – close;
cream – critical – credit – crash – crawl – cruise – crush – crazy – cry – crowd – scream – scratch – scrape;
fact – active – action – token – lecture – awkward – Arctic – mechanics – archive – miracle;
[sk] scan – scale – scare – score – school – scope – escape – skate – ski – skin – skirt – skunk – sky;
[k] account – accommodate – according – accumulate – accuse – occur;
[ks] access – accent – accept – succeed;
[ks] fix – relax – maximum – axis – excellent – exceed – except – excess – exchange – explain – explore;
[ksk] exclaim – exclude – excuse – excursion;
[kw] question – quite – quick – queen – quality – equal – require – request;
cake – took – walk – talk – dark – oak – rack – pick – panic – magic – unique – bank – link – risk – task;

Practice the sound [g] as in GO

give – gift – get – guess – gas – gap – guard – gorge – gone – goose – good – girl – gun – gust – game – guy – guide – go
– gold;
glimpse – glare – glance – glamor – glue – gloomy – glum – glide – global – glow;
green – grip – grab – grasp – grew – groom – great – ground – grow;
begin – again – ago – legal – eager – beggar – regular – ignore – ugly – giggle – eagle – struggle – single – anger –
hungry;
[gw] language – linguist – Guatemala – Gwen;
[gz] exist – exert – exam – exact – exhibit;
big – bag – dog – leg – egg – rug – dialogue – vague – vogue

Practice the sound [f] as in FEEL

feel – feed – fear – fit – finish – fell – fed – fair – fast – far – four – form – fond – food – few – full – foot – fur – firm –
fun – fame – fate – final – find – found – phone – photo;
flick – flesh – flag – floor – floss – flew – flu – flirt – flame – fly – flight – Floyd – flown;
free – freeze – frigid – friend – fresh – fragile – fraud – frog – fruit – frame – phrase – fry – frown – froze;
office – offer – often – suffer – effect – coffee – muffin – defend – after – left – drift – soft;
if – life – safe – loaf – half – deaf – stiff – staff – cuff – rough – tough – enough – laugh

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Practice the sound [v] as in VERY
veal – vivid – vet – very – variant – vast – vault – verb – vein – vague – vine – vital – vouch – voice – void – vote;
even – evil – fever – eleven – event – level – lever – ever – every – invest – review – prevail – prevent – provoke;
leave – give – live – active – love – move – brave – groove – stove – curve;

Practice the sound [θ] as in THIN

theme – thief – theater – theory – thin – thick – thing – think – therapy – thank – thorn – thought – third – thirty –
thirsty – thermometer – Thursday – thoroughly – thumb – thunder – thousand;
three – thrifty – thrill – thread – threat – throb – through – threw – thrust – thrive – throw – throat – throne;
method – author – lethal – anything – everything – nothing – diphthong – without – sympathy;
breath – bath – path – booth – tooth – teeth – truth – north – cloth – moth – earth – birth – faith – south – both –
growth;
health – wealth – length – strength – width – fifth – sixth – thirteenth – thirtieth – with

Practice the sound [ð] as in THIS

these – this – then – them – their – there – that – than – the – they – those – though;
other – mother – father – brother – leather – feather – weather – whether – together – gather – either – neither –
further;
although – without – southern – northern – rhythm – clothes;
breathe – bathe – soothe – smooth – clothe – with

Practice the sound [s] as in SO

seem – seen – sin – simple – city – send – center – sad – sack – saw – sore – song – soon – suit – sir – certain – sun –
suck – save – sail – side – sign – sound – sour – so – soul;
lesson – listen – associate – society – privacy – agency – test – waste;
sleep – slope – smell – smile – snake – snow – speak – span – split – splash – spray – spring – stay – stone – strain –
stripe – sweet – swim;
[sk] scale – scare – escape – scatter – score – school – scoundrel – screen – scrub – skate – skin – sky;
[s] scene – scent – science – scissors – scythe – miscellaneous;
[ks] accent – access – accept – except – excess – explain – relax – fix – mix;
kiss – pass – advice – nice – notice – release – increase – reduce – use (n.) – loose – rinse – since – chance; looks –
takes – asks – stops – keeps – types – laughs – coughs – fits – hates – tests – insists

Practice the sound [z] as in ZOO

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zebra – zero – zip – zigzag – zest – zap – zoo – zoom – zone;
music – reason – poison – present – dozen – citizen – horizon – razor – resign – resist – busy – crazy – lazy – puzzle –
sizzle – dazzle – realism – idealism – capitalism – socialism;
[gz] exist – exert – exam – exact – exhibit;
lose – choose – use (v.) – rose – those – wise – always – advise – surprise – organize – quiz – jazz;
is – does – has – pays – runs – teams – finds – tells – rubs – lives – classes – loses – changes – fixes

Practice the sound [sh] as in SHOW

she – sheep – sheer – chic – ship – shed – share – champagne – short – shot – shoe – sure – sugar – should – shook –
shirt – shut – shame – shake – shape – shine – show;
shriek – shrimp – shrink – shrug – shrine;
special – social – official – financial – politician – efficient – patient – delicious – suspicious – precious – cautious –
discussion – expression – mission – pressure – fashion – nation – section – condition;
push – bush – leash – fish – flash – rash – cash – cache – publish – foolish

Practice the sound [zh] as in BEIGE

usual – casual – visual – vision – explosion – erosion – measure – pleasure – treasure – leisure;
beige – mirage – collage – sabotage – prestige – garage – rouge

Practice the sound [h] as in HE

he – heat – here – him – history – help – hair – hand – have – half – heart – hard – horn – hot – who – whose – hook –
her – heard – hurry – hunt – hundred – hate – hide – how – home – hope – hold – whole;
behind – behold – inherit – inhibit – inhabit – inhale

Practice the sound [ch] as in CHEESE

cheese – cheap – cheer – chip – chin – check – chess – chair – chance – chapter – charity – chart – charter – chalk –
chore – choose – chew – church – chunk – chain – China – chime – chose – choke,
teacher – preacher – kitchen – matching – watching – teaching;
much – such – touch – search – torch – teach – rich – branch – lunch – batch – catch – patch – pitch – watch – Dutch;

Practice the sound [j] as in JUST

jeans – jeep – Jim – gin – gym – jet – general – gentle – jam – jazz – John – journey – journal – just – jump – judge –
June – jail – Jane – giant – joint – joke;

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region – surgeon – agent – angel – danger – stranger – engine – Egypt – tragic – energy – object – subject – injection –
suggest – fidget;
age – page – rage – large – huge – emerge – package – message – hostage – manage – bridge – badge – porridge –
change – range – strange – sponge;

Practice the sound [m] as in ME

me – mean – mere – middle – mint – men – man – mark – more – Mommy – moon – mute – murder – must – mother
– main – make – mind – my – mode – most;
smell – smash – smart – small – smooth – smug – smile – smoke;
summer – Emma – command – memory – murmur – family – female – mumble – ramble;
seem – some – dame – time – form – firm – stem – plum – lamb – thumb – climb – comb

Practice the sound [n] as in NO

need – neat – knee – never – nap – nasty – normal – not – noon – new – nutrition – nut – name – nature – knife –
night – nine – now – noun – nose – know – no;
sneeze – sniff – snack – snap – snore – snob – snug – snake – snail – sniper – snow;
funny – manner – inner – winner – annoy – finish – internal – Nancy – kindness – signature;
lunch – bench – branch – change – range – find – mind – bend – sound – round – aunt – faint – point – student – sent –
dance – science – sense;
ban – tan – kin – pin – thin – sin – son – sun – born – sane – main – sign – nine – noun – known – own – Indian

Practice the sound [ŋ] as in SING

[ŋ] sing – singer – singing – sang – sung – hang – hanger – hanging – hung – lung – song – king – bang – slang – ring –
ping – thing – wrong – long – young – strong – tongue – going – cooking – reading;
[ŋ]+[g] finger – anger – angry – hunger – hungry – linger – longer – longest – younger – youngest – stronger –
strongest – congress (n.) – single – angle – strangle – tangle – lingo – language – linguist;
[ŋ]+[k] bank – banker – frank – spank – tank – ankle – drink – think – sink – link – ink – pink – punk – drunk – skunk –
uncle

Practice the sound [l] as in LIVE

lead – leap – live – let – less – lack – last – lark – law – lord – lock – lot – lost – lose – loop – look – learn – luck – lady –
late – life – like – light – lie – loud – loyal – Lloyd – load;
blood – blow – plain – plan – clear – close – glide – glow – split – splash;
sleep – slip – slap – slash – slot – sluice – slur – slum – slave – slight – slide – slouch – slow – slogan;
alone – alive – Elizabeth – elect – valley – lily – silly – really – lonely – nicely – wisely;

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cold – hold – held – mild – field – build – fault – salt – felt – melt – consult;
apple – couple – table – terrible – little – bottle – needle – idle – miracle – vehicle;
all – fall – call – tell – well – will – whole – role – roll – soul – deal – boil – mail – tale – file – cool – girl

Practice the sound [r] as in RED

read – reap – real – rear – risk – wrist – red – rest – rare – ran – rap – raw – wrong – roof – route – room – run – rust –
rain – raise – rise – right – round – royal – road – rope – rose – wrote;
bring – proud – spread – true – stripe – dry – free – crow – scrape – grab – throw – shrink;
around – arrange – arrive – arrogant – narrow – berry – carry – sorry – hurry – during – period – barbaric – murderous
– careless – reference – tolerance – story – salary;
carp – hard – park – large – carve – born – form – horse – porch – morgue – term – earn – birth – first – girl – curb –
curl – hurt – turf;

more – tore – four – car – bar – far – care – pair – fear – hear – sir – were – fur – purr – fire – hire – poor – tour – our –
power

Practice the sound [w] as in WE

we – week – wheel – wind – will – wet – west – when – where – wax – wall – war – warm – water – want – wool –
would – word – worse – won – one – once – way – wait – wild – why – white – wound – won't;

sweet – swim – swift – sweat – swear – swallow – twelve – twenty – twice – twinkle – twist – dwell – dwarf;

[kw] question – quite – quick – queen – quality – equal – request – require;

[gw] language – linguist – Guatemala – Gwen

Practice the sound [y] as in YES

year – yield – yes – yesterday – yellow – yet – yard – yawn – York – yacht – yearn – young – yoga – yolk – you – use –
unit – utility;

beyond – canyon – Tanya – Tonya – million – billion – onion – union – music – human – few – view

Practice Consonant Sound Sentences

Practice Consonant Sound - “t” Practice Consonant sound -“TH” Practice Consonant sound - “s” &
sound sound “sh” sounds

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 1. It took Tim ten times to try the What’s in your hand? Nothing. Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine
shop.
telephone. Nothing?...... Nothing.
All day long she sits and shines,
2. Stop touching Ted’s toes. There must be
something…..Nothing. All day long she shines and sits,
3. Turn towards Stella and study
Something is in your hand…. Look for And sits and shines, and shines and
her contract together. it. sits,
4. Control your tears. What’s in your mouth?........Nothing. And sits and shines, and shines and
5. It’s Tommy’s turn to tell the sits,
There can’t be nothing in your
teacher the truth. mouth! Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoe shine
shop.
6. Put it in a bottle. There must be something in your
mouth. She sells sea shells on the seashore,
7. Write it in a letter.
What’s in your mouth??........Teeth! The shells that she sells are seashells
8. Put all the data on the I’m sure.
So there is something in your
computer. mouth…….Yes, teeth. So if she sells seashells on the
seashore,
9. Betty’s at a meeting. How many teeth do you
have?........Thirty – two. I’m sure that the shells are seashore
10. She hit the hot hut with her
shells.
Thirty- two teeth did you say?.......
hat.
Yes thirty- two.
11. Pat was quite right, wasn’t she? So there is something in your
12. Tim Tucker took some tiles mouth……Yes thirty-two teeth.
today. Say something…….What shall I
say?.... Something!!
13. Where did Tim Tucker take the
There’s nothing to say……….There is
tiles. too.
14. Tim took them to Tahiti. What should I say?.....I said say
15. What will Tim do with them in something.

Tahiti? What did I say?.......You said, say

something.
16. Tim will tile ten tables.
So say something. Don’t sit there say
17. Tahitians don’t need tiled something. Say something.
tables. Okay, okay, I’ll say something…….
18. Tim should go to Tehran and Something.
Thank you very much…….You’re
not Tahiti. He can tile tables
welcome!
there.
19. It will take Tim ten hours to get
to Tehran from Tahiti.

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 Practice Vowel Sound Sentences

Vowel Sound Practice: EE Vowel Sound Practice: ai Vowel Sound Practice: ea

Mr. Creep is far from sweet. Daisy is a brainy snail, She can drive I dream of a meal by the seaside, I
a train, And bring the mail, She can dream of a meal by the sea, A seat at
He’s got three legs and smelly feet.
sail a ship or follow a trail, Yes, Daisy the beach, With the sea within the
Mrs. Creep is the creepy queen. is a brainy snail. reach, And peaches and cream for
Her knees are blue and her hair is my tea, Yes please !
green.
Teeny Creep likes to peep.
So he always wins at hide and seek.
The creepiest three you’ll ever meet,
The creepy Creeps from the Creepy
Street

Vowel Sound Practice: oa Vowel Sound Practice: ai Vowel Sound Practice: ay

A gentleman goat Fell in love with a I spy a little fly, Buzzing in the deep My birthday is a week on Monday,
toad Whom he happened to meet By blue sky, He’ll be gone by and by. I Last year it was on a Sunday. It
the side of the road spy a little fly, doesn’t matter anyway, I was born
on a Saturday.
He adored her low croak She adored Buzzing round, I don’t know why,
his fur coat And so as they got He’ll be gone by and by. I spy a little Its odd how birthdays don’t just stay,
married The toad and the goat. fly, Buzzing round and looking sly, They hop around from day to day.
He’ll be gone by and by, But not
before he’s made me cry

Reading Practice
1. It took Tim ten times to try the telephone.
2. Stop touching Ted’s toes.
3. Turn towards Stella and study her contract together.
4. Control your tears.
5. It’s Tommy’s turn to tell the teacher the truth.
6. Put it in a bottle.
7. Write it in a letter.
8. Put all the data on the computer.
9. Betty’s at a meeting.
10. It’s getting hotter and hotter.
11. She hit the hot hut with her hat.
12. Pat was quite right, wasn’t she?
13. Tim Tucker took some tiles today.
14. Where did Tim Tucker take the tiles.
15. Tim took them to Tahiti.
16. What will Tim do with them in Tahiti?
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 17. Tim will tile ten tables.
18. Tahitians don’t need tiled tables.
19. Tim should go to Tehran and not Tahiti. He can tile tables there.
20. It will take Tim ten hours to get to Tehran from Tahiti.
Reading Practice: Something or Nothing
What’s in your hand? Nothing. Nothing So there is something in your mouth.
Nothing? Nothing. There must be Yes thirty-two teeth. Say something.
There can’t be nothing in your
something. Nothing. Something is in What shall I say? Something. There’s
mouth! There must be something in
your hand…. Look for it. What’s in nothing to say. There is too. What
your mouth. What’s in your
your mouth? should I say?
mouth?? Teeth! So there is
something in your mouth. Yes, teeth.
How many teeth do you have? Thirty
– two. Thirty- two teeth did you say?
Yes thirty- two.

1. Twist your tongue with a tongue twister and get totally tongue-tied!
2. Tom and Thomas tangoed down the Thames with two teetotalers trying to taste tangerines in tallow.
3. Betty Botta bought some bottles to store some batter but the batter but the batter got bitter so her brother
bought some better batter to bottle in the bottles that Betty Botta bought.
4. Climbing crimes are lures for crowded clowns.
5. Can you can clams in a can like a canner can can clams?
6. Carla and Cathy caught a cold cause the canopy of their car got carried across the canal in Carlisle.
7. Catch Mr. Cooper the copper by the collar and call him a colorless carrot.
8. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter as Peter Pan Peanut Butter is the butter that picky people pick.
9. Put the peeled potatoes in the pan to prepare a potato platter with pickles and pasta.
10. The pathetic pickpocket picked the pocket of my pajamas.

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