Pronouncercizing

Pronouncercizing - Book Table of Contents

Introduction	viii
What Is Pronouncercizing?	viii
It’s All About the Movement	x
My Challenges	xii
My Students’ Challenges	xiv
Your Challenges	xvi
How is the Book Organized?	xviii
A Student Resource	xx
A Teacher Reference	xxi
Making It Easy to See	xxii
What Do You Do First?	xxiv
A Student-Centered Class	xxvi
A Few Final Words	xxviii
Whole Body Warm-ups	1
Stretch, Twist	2
Shoulders up, Shoulders down, Shoulders front, Shoulders back, Roll your shoulders	3
Roll your head, Shake your hands, Shake your legs, Stretch your Mouth	4
Mouth Warm-ups	5
The Birds (tells/it’s)	6
The Doors (circle)	8
The Swing (running	10
The Boxing Ring (wow)	12
The Wave (Thursday/Tuesday)	14
The Dogs (Dorothy)
The Skateboard (button)	18
The Sounds	21
1. "Pure" Vowels	23
not	24
the	26
end	28
back	30
it	32
put	34
small	36
2. Vowel Sound Combos Ending with the Sound of "W"	39
to	40
go	42
wow	44
3. Vowel Sound Combos Ending with the Sound of "Y"	47
he's	48
same	50
I'm	52
boy	54
4. Consonants That Can Seem a Little Like Vowels	57
want	58
yes	60
red	62
her, there, or, are	64
let's	66
cold	68
5. Consonants That Sound Nasal	71
swing	72
nine	74
name	76
6. Voice and No-Voice Consonants	78
is	80
this*	82
don't	84
ten*	86
it*	88
red/get; job/up; flag/work*	90
big	92
put	92
go	94
keep*	94
the	96
month*	96
five	98
four*	98
vision	100
she	100
age	102
rich*	102
he*	104
7. Consonant Combos	107
what*	108
quarter*	110
exit	112
six*	112
luxury	114
anxious*	114
Appendixes	117
Appendix 1: Pronouncing Plurals	118
Appendix 2: Pronouncing Regular Verbs in Simple Past Tense	119
Appendix 3: Master Word List	120
Appendix 4: Linguistic Notations and International Phonetic Alphabet	124
References	126