sh as ti, ssi, ci, ce, sci, xi, su, ssu; zh as si, su; ch as tu, ti

Grade 1 · Day 108 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 121 · p.128–129 · 30.4 min · student sheet
voice ON/ʒ/s in 'measure' · postalveolar fricative
/ʒ/ · s in 'measure'

Our new sound: /ʒ/   written s in 'measure'

The same mouth as sh, with your voice ON. It is the sound in the middle of 'measure' and 'treasure'.

Check yourself: Hand on your throat: this one buzzes, sh does not.

Read these · 40 words

pharmacist
emphasis
emphatic
ssi
nation
patient
fission
racial
station
patience
mission
facial
ration
action
admission
special
lotion
fraction
session
crucial
motion
traction
musician
notion
ocean
atrocious
obnoxious
sure
Issue
ferocious
Insure
tissue
conscious
assure
conscience
fissure
Continued
fusion
measure
capture

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