Make phonics fun with a tongue twister

Tongue twisters can help children learn phonics in fun, meaningful ways. Further, tongue twisters support an awareness of how language works.  A quick look at the Alphablocks tongue twister below shows sentences with easily identifiable nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.  Finally, the humour in tongue twisters helps children focus on meaning while reinforcing their understanding of phonics and sentence structure.

Hill

Net

This is the hill

This is the net

Bog

This is the bog

The bog is wet

Cog

This is the cog we need to get

The cog, the cog, the cog?

Yes, the cog

This is the cog we need to get

Can we get it?

No, no yet

But we can if we get a pet

FROG

This is a frog

The frog can hop

The frog will hop across the bog to get the cog

Hop, hop, hop...

The frog fell into the bog

DOG

This is the dog

The dog can dig

The frog can hop

Frog, hop on top

The frog on the dog will dig under the bog to get the cog

Dig, dig, dig...

The frog on the dog dug into the bog

HOG

This is the hog

A hog is a pig

The pig can jig, the dog can dig, the frog can hop

Frog, dog, hop on top 

The frog on the dog on the hog will jig across the bog to get the cog 

Jig, jig, jig...

The frog on the dog on the hog hit the net and fell into the bog 

LOG

This is the log 

The log is big

The hog is a pig, the pig can jig, the dog can dig, the frog can hop 

Frog, dog, hog, hop on top 

The frog on the dog on the hog on the log will cross the bog to get the cog

One, two, three, go!

No, no, no

The frog on the dog on the hog on the log will not go

J, J, J, J can fix it

Jog

The frog on the dog on the hog will jog on a log across the bog to get the cog

Jog, jog, jog...

The cog, the cog, the cog, the cog, the cog

BOX

This is a box

There is the cog

Thank you frog, thank you dog, thank you hog and thank you log

The box tics, the box tocs

Tic toc tic toc

The box unlocks

Look the frog on a dog on a hog on a log

A frog on a dog on a hog on a log

Oh, no

One, two, three go!

After working hard with the Alphablocks tongue twister children relaxed building their own "Get the brick" scene with LEGO stuff. 

Then they had to tell me how to overcome the obstacles and get the brick employing the action vocabulary (jog, jig, hop, dig) and different prepositions (across, under, over...) learnt through the video.