Structured Literacy – Pure New Zealand Sounds

This video from Emma Nahna will help you to learn and understand:

1) What all the consonant and vowel phonemes (sounds) of NZ English are; and

2) How to say them clearly when you are supporting beginning or struggling learners to hear and use the sounds during phonological awareness, reading and spelling.

If you want to jump past the explanation to the 44 sounds, skip to 2:17

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