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Understanding the link between letters and their sounds can help readers
with an
unfamiliar word that has a similar pattern.
Many good readers look for familiar patterns in new words. Phonics
also helps readers make the connection between a word they have "heard"
before, with that same word in the story. Strong phonics skills
helps readers in many areas of reading and writing development.
Skills mastery requires practice and repetition. It is through
practice and repetition that a child moves to a level of mastery and then
on to automaticity.
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Suggestions
for Parents:
* Match lowercase and
uppercase letters
* Use index cards and
write each letter
(capital and lowercase)
an a card. Go
through magazines and find a picture that
begins with that letter. Paste the
picture on the card.
* Match a few pictures to a letter card
* Alphabet flashcards - mix them up - ask
child to name the letter and tell the
sound that the letter makes.
* Give the child a sound and see if they
can name the letter.
* Look for letters of the alphabet in signs.
Ask them to think of a word that begins
with the letter.
* Use magnetic letters on the refrigerator
- put them in order or make words
* Discuss short and long vowel sounds
* Use word families - cat, fat, hat -
rhyming
words
* Play word games
- write the word "mat"
then change the initial
sound and have
child say the new word. Change the
ending sound. Change the middle sound.
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* Label items in the home
* Have child read familiar signs - Wawa
* Talk to your child
* Encourage your child to ask questions
* Use sandpaper to make letters or words
* Write letters or words in sand,
on sandpaper, shaving cream, salt, or
steamed windows
* Use small chalkboard, play-doh,
markers,sidewalk chalk, pretzel sticks,
or bathtub paint
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