Preschool children learn: The 26 letter sounds of the English Alphabet.How to phonetically sound out three letter words.How to read most phonetic sounding 3 letter words.How to write 26 Alphabet Letters.That letter sounds make words.The lowercase Alphabet through play and coloring.TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO READ AND WRITE PROCESSChildren learn to read through play and coloring Alphabet pictures; all you need to do is provide the pictures, coloring pencils or crayons.The work of Florence Akin in the book Word Mastery teaches what are the easiest letter sounds (phonograms) to blend into words. Children do not learn the phonetic sound of letters in alphabetical order, but rather learn lowercase letter sounds in this order: m, a, n, r, f, s, as these letter sounds are easiest to prolong (make the sound longer) and then e, t, l, g, c, k, b, i, h, d, p, o, j, w, u, z, x, q, v, y; children learn to create and read 3 letter words. Alphabet letters are used to represent speech sounds, or phonemes (the letter sound).Capital letter sounds come later, once children master lowercase letter sounds.Note: the name or capital of the letter (such as A in acorn) is not used until a child has a firm grasp of the lowercase alphabet letter sounds, and that those sounds form words. When teaching your child to read, start with:1.The lowercase letter sound first.2.There are 21 consonant, and 5 vowels sounds (the Alphabet). 3.That the sounds of alphabet letters form words.4.That we can use words to read and write ideas.5.Teach the capital or name of a letter later.Initially you are teaching the sound of a letter and not showing the child the written word. Once your child has completed this book they will be able to read, write and sound out these 180 words: man, ran, ram, fan, men, mat, met, nat, net, set, sat, rat, fat, ten, tan, let, rag, tag, sag, gas, get, gag, cat, can, keg, cab, tab, ben, bat, bag, beg, bit, bat, sit, sat, set, fig, tin, ten, fit, fat, rib, bib, big, beg, bag, fin, rim, hit, hem, ham, him, hen, red, rid, lad, led, lid, fed, hid, had, mad, mid, bed, bad, sad, did, den, din, dig, dim, pig, tap, tip, rip, rap, sip, sap, nap, map, lap, lip, cap, dip, hip, pan, pin, pen, pet, pat, pit, peg, log, fog, fig, cob, cab, rob, rib, nod, sod, pod, pad, rod, rid, red, hop, hip, lap, lip, lop, top, tap, tip, got, pot, pat, pet, pit, hat, hit, hot, let, lot, dot, jam, jet, jot, wag, wig, wit, wet, web, win, gum, hum, hem, ham, him, bug, beg, bag, big, rag, rug, hug, jug, pug, peg, pig, tag, tug, tub, hub, rub, mud, bud, sup, cup, pup, run, bun, ben, fun, gun, sun, cut, hut, hat, hot, hit, but, nut, zip, axe, box, six, yak, yam, yes, yet.THE NEXT STEPS TO TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO READ-Short and long vowel sounds: a , e , I , o , u and capitals A , E , I , O , U .-Pre-Primer Dolch Sight word list: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you.-The 86 blended phonogram sounds.-Short 2-, 3- and 4-word sentences.THE METHODStart teaching your child the lowercase (short) sound of English alphabet letters (phonemes - which are speech sounds); this involves ear , tongue , eye and word building training.
