The ABCs and All Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop

This book gives practical information and examples about the sounds of English! I volunteer to teach a conversational ESL class and this book has been very helpful for me in explaining and demonstrating English pronunciation for the class. I have developed lessons around different letters and syllables that I hear the students needing help pronouncing.

One of the best books teachers (or anyone else) could have. It brings very thorough information about English phonograms along with short and clear information on why and how to use each phonogram. It also brings exceptions. It also brings rules and some information related to origin. (it could go deeper into etymology, but then we would need a much bigger volume!). It's an excellent book and I strongly recommend it.

Sitting on the shelf for a few years, this book finally came in handy when our homeschooled 5-year-old who has been learning phonics with a burgeoning interest in spelling words out herself asked, "Why does C sound like an S sometimes?" And "Why does Ch sound like a K in Christmas?"We just found the relevant section and talked about the rule with her!And we greatly appreciate the rigour and dedication of the author who originally assembled this wealth of information.

Would recommend to anyone teaching children to read and parents. Excellent book easy to support children with some of the why to the english language, alphabetic cod and, morphology.

Attention : le livre est en anglais.Ce livre est une sorte de dictionnaire récapitulatif sur la prononciation des mots en anglais.Les premiers chapitres reviennent sur les règles de base de prononciation des consonnes et des voyelles, ainsi que sur les règles d'accentuation. Un chapitre donne des conseils pour les professeurs.Ensuite, le livre se présente sous forme de listes de mots regroupés en fonction de leur prononciation (il existe beaucoup d'irrégularités dans la prononciation en anglais).A la fin du livre, vous avez des appendices revenant sur la division des syllabes, leur accentuation, la structure des mots (doublement des consonnes, mots à origine latine, mots composés, ....)d'après moi, ce livre est vraiment très complet et est une référence en la matière.Je pense que ce livre peut vraiment être intéressant pour ceux qui apprennent l'anglais et qui ne connaissent pas forcément l'alphabet phonétique.