A roadmap for English exposure at each stage of phonological development, provided by an English education expert with 30 years of experience.
The first step-by-step phonological input guidebook that makes phonics easy

*Introducing 131 English picture books for each phoneme level
*Hyunseo's Dad's Recommended YouTube Videos & Usage Tips
*Includes a QR code link to the Read Aloud video and English games for each phoneme level.

This book was written by Joyce Park, an English education expert with 30 years of experience, to answer the question, “How can I provide children with spoken language input by reading English picture books before they enter the world of letters?”
While writing and giving lectures on English education for parents and teachers, I received numerous questions from the field.
Among them, the question that particularly weighed heavily was how to expose children to English through spoken language before acquiring letters, that is, before phonics.
So, after much thought, I came up with the stage of phonological awareness of native English-speaking children as a standard to use as a yardstick.

Based on this, we have organized how to provide spoken language input in order, including rhyming and sound development, word segmentation within a sentence, syllable segmentation, onset and rhyme segmentation, and phoneme recognition.
Also, to prevent the input from being too focused on English picture books, I included YouTube read-aloud links for each picture book, and Mr. Bae Seong-gi, Hyunseo's father, also provided suggestions on how to find YouTube videos.
The method of exposure to spoken language, which was scattered here and there, is organized step by step, so it is very useful for parents and teachers to refer to and follow.

When should you start phonics? Once your child has some phonemic awareness, you can start.
At the oral language stage, parents and teachers read books together and show letters, and the child simply sits in front of the book and participates in the content.
Children should never be allowed to watch YouTube videos alone. An adult should sit next to them, listen to the content, follow along, and interact with the content.
In a way, the stage before acquiring letters is like the stage where a swan moves diligently, stamping its feet under the water.
There may be no outward appearance for a while.
But when enough spoken language input has been accumulated, just like a swan spreading its wings and flying over the water, children will open their mouths and begin to speak and read English.
Until then, we who raise and teach children will be able to silently smile and walk alongside them, step by step, through the stages they must go through.

--- p.7

The most important thing in teaching children English is to provide them with rich, meaningful language experiences based on hearing, not just words.
In other words, we need to follow the natural order of listening → understanding → expression, and we need an approach that helps us become familiar with English through chunks of language in context and situations rather than focusing on words.
When adults learn a language, they learn the alphabet, learn words, and then combine those words to acquire sentences.
Learning in this way seems logical, but it's not the case for children either.

--- p.14

When teaching English as a spoken language, it's a good idea to start with expressions where one word functions like a sentence.
Of course, nouns are the easiest to learn in any language.
It's also easy to present.
However, the ability to successfully communicate by adding one small word to a noun is not a feature of all languages.
It means that it is more important to say “milk, please!” than to know that the word “milk” means “milk.”
Because we will teach English centered around nouns that function like a single sentence in the context of communication.

--- p.16

It takes at least one to two months for the brain to recognize specific visual information as text and automate it.
Because it requires recognizing seemingly meaningless, random visual symbols as text.
Especially in the case of the English alphabet, it takes more time because you have to memorize all 26 uppercase and lowercase letters and learn the relationships and order between these letters.
It is said that a child without any particular cognitive problems needs to be exposed to a letter about 10 times to learn it.

--- p.27

Native English-speaking children already have a huge reservoir of spoken language in their heads before they can read the alphabet.
It's natural because we speak and hear English every day in our daily lives.
But our children, who learn English as a foreign language, do not have a spoken language store of English in their heads.
It's doubly challenging for our children because they have to learn both the 'visual code' of the alphabet and the 'spoken language' of English for the first time.
Therefore, to compensate for this, we need to play according to the order in which English phonemic awareness develops.
This way, our children can learn English more efficiently.

--- p.47

There are some things you need to have before learning Phoenix.
The most important thing is to develop phonemic awareness in English.
A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech sound that distinguishes the meaning of a word.
Consonant sounds and vowel sounds are each one phoneme.
In English, phonemes are important.
Because consonants and vowels are each sounded independently.
But Korean is not like that.
Consonants cannot be sounded independently; they must be combined with vowels to produce a sound.
Korean is a syllable-based language made up of consonants and vowels.

--- p.95

How should I read English picture books? There are effective ways to read picture books.
It's called 'Text Talk'.
Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeon, English education professors at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, have published a teaching method called 'Text Talk' that explains how to read aloud to children.
The key to this teaching method is how much you interact with your child while reading the book.
Text Talk is '1.
Before reading the book, 2.
Reading, 3.
After reading, it consists of 3 steps.
It contains instructions on how to interact with your child at each stage.

--- p.152

How do you interpret a painting? By carefully examining the movement, color, lines, and characters within the painting, you can discern the artist's intentions and message.
Reading a picture is about finding the hidden story.
The pictures in picture books have a path and direction created by the gaze.
To attract the reader's attention to a specific object and then move the gaze to the next important image, the artist creates a 'reading path' through the image.
If you read along this path, you can enjoy the picture book more fully.

--- p.170