Letter B: Formation and Pronunciation Instructions

Is the letter B? B. Okay. For a B, I want you to remember bat, then the ball. Okay. Do you write the line and then the curve? Circle. Okay, so get your magical fingers out. You’re writing line down, and then the bump around for a B. Okay. For the sound of B, watch my lips. Boo. Boo. Boo. Good. Your lips, are they together when it starts? Yes. Boo. Okay, so when you’re writing a word and you have to write a B, and you’re like, boo, boo, and you can’t remember if you write the curve of the line first. Go back to that sound. But. Oh, my lips are together making a line. But. So I write the line part first. Okay. And then it opens, and then your mouth opens, so then you write the open part of the B. Okay. For the sound for B, our motion is going to be a chopping across the mouth so we remember not to put a schwa on it. We do not listen to the difference. But, but, but. Okay, we don’t want that, uh, so we’re gonna chop it like this to remind ourselves that we’re not gonna add that, uh, on that sound. Okay? So what it will look like is B but. B, but. B, but. Very good.