The awareness of sounds and the development of language are the foundations for reading skills for most children.
Understanding that sounds of speech (or phonemes) relate to a specific letter or letters of the alphabet create a pathway for children to learn to read and write.
At Rooted in Sounds, learning each speech sound begins by reading the alliteration sentence (the first four have been provided for you). The language used on the cards extends your child’s vocabulary. Explain what the action word (verb) is then create a simple action for this word and repeat the sound. Turn the card over and show the letter symbol. Focus on the common letter and ask your child to repeat the sound.
Our Beginners Workbook 1 provides activities to complete however you can play sound games once your child can recall two or three sounds.
The letter
At this stage we focus on using the sounds rather than the letter name. Whenever you see / / it is with reference to the sound rather than the letter name.
Ask your child to point to the letter that we say /a/ for.
Bring me the letter that spells /m/
Colour the letter that we say /t/ for,
Jump on the letter that spells /s/
The idea is to use a creative way for your child to interact with the letter. Some children like running, some jumping and some colouring. Find the way or ways that motivates your child and have fun while learning.
Read aloud
After reading a story to your child, share a page and say ‘Can you show me where you can see a letter that you know? What sound do we say for this letter?’ Your child is likely to begin identifying sounds in the environment, do encourage this also. This supports your child to understand that words are all around us and the words we speak can be written using letters.
Encourage repetition
Do review the alliteration cards frequently until the knowledge of the sound is embedded alongside the matching symbol or symbols. All activities mentioned help to strengthen your child’s ability to connect sounds to letters, forming the building blocks of literacy.
We have provided the first four alliteration cards for you to use.
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Until next week,
