How To Teach Beginning Letter Sounds

Teachers are encouraged to hold up point to or highlight on their SMART board a letter and teach its name and often its sound. Teach certain letters first.

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Before reading the story use sticky notes to cover up the first letters in many of the words.

How to teach beginning letter sounds. She will begin to manipulate and understand sounds in spoken language and she will practice this understanding by making up rhymes and new words of her own. After students have done this reveal the letter from under the sticky note that is making the sound. Download to read more.

Perhaps several letters will be reviewed. Teaching Letter Sound Correspondence The first thing youre going to do is simply to tell your child how each letter makes its own sound. Say When I hold up a letter say the letters name and give its sound If your child is not saying the letter and sound in 3 secondsgo back and reteach.

Using hands-on activities is a great way to build phonemic awareness and fine motor skills all at once. Typical Teaching of Letter Sounds Imagine what happens every morning in most 4K K or 1st grade classrooms in US. Lower case letters are taught first since these occur more frequently than upper case letters.

Now that your students are working hard on listening for beginning sounds and making letter-sound connections it is a great time to start bringing in more beginning sounds activities. Letter recognition and production She will learn the names of the letters and she will. I love the idea of starting with either A or a sound with a very obvious sound like T or C.

Letters that look similar and have similar sounds b and d are separated in the instructional sequence to avoid confusion. Sit down with your learner one-on-one. While reading encourage students to use the pictures to identify what word will come next and isolate the beginning sounds.

Tell your child to start with their feet on a certain letter eg start on letter A then tell them to jump to different letters using the letter sounds. Pick the first letter youre going to learn and tell them its sound. Hands-On Center Activities.

In this video we explore beginning sounds and the alphabet for toddlers specifically looking at the sounds letters make while playing with a magic box and v. If your learner knows any letter sounds glue down the pictures for those letters. For another movement activity put tape on the floor with a letter on each piece of tape.

Start by teaching your child the letter sounds that occur the most frequently in simple words first. When you hold up the letter flashcard you will want your child to say the letter sound and the letter name within 3 seconds. Letters that occur frequently in simple words eg a m t are taught first.

Short vowels are taught before long vowels. Each time you sit down with the book ideally every day but at least 3-4 times a week have your learner name the letter sound and picture for each page that has the image glued down. Starting with the letter sounds a m t p o n c d for.

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