Letter I Song

This letter I song is one of a series of guruparents phonics songs. The song introduces the letter sound by featuring 12 words beginning with the letter i sound, including some sight words. Kids songs are a good way for a child to start to learn to read -- and this one is set to a catchy rap tune, features lots of colorful pictures and has a simple rhyming pattern. It is also a good song to introduce the letter I for someone who is learning English. The letter i is the fifth most commonly used letter in English. It is pronounced in two main ways - the short &sound in &and the long &sound in 'bike'. Although in text messages it may be okay to use the lowercase &when talking about yourself (for example, &feel gr8 today&it is never acceptable to do this in more formal writing. Despite this, many children aged 10 or 11 (or even older!) use the lower case &for the personal pronoun all the time. This feature of a child&writing tends to scream out to the reader that &am not a very good writer!&so make sure your child learns how to do it the right way! Some new speakers of English have difficulty in pronouncing the &sound correctly. A common problem is to say &with an &sound -- therefore a word such as &will sound more like & Lyrics: I is for igloo a home made out of ice I is for itchy -- a feeling that¬ nice I is for Italy -- its capital is Rome I is for India -- where Indians call home I is for inch -- even smaller than my hand I is for instructions -- they...