What is Phonics? Letter Sound Blending
http://www.firststepreading.com What is Phonics?
Phonics based reading is teaching children to read using Letter Sounds and Letter Symbols.
Letter Sounds are the sounds that Letters make. Letter Symbols are the Letter of the Alphabet.
Phonics lessons teach children to break apart words into their sounds in order to read and decode unfamiliar words in text.
To assist your child's learning of Letter Sounds, watch the Letter Sound Videos and use the Uppercase and Lowercase Flashcards.
When using the Uppercase and Lowercase Flashcards have your child tell you the sound that each letter makes (Upper and Lowercase Flashcards).
For additional practice with Letter Sounds, say a Letter Sound to your child and have your child find the correct Upper and Lowercase Letter Flashcard that makes that sound.
Check out http://www.firststepreading.com for over 50 free video lessons to teach your child step by step how to read and to assist parents and educators on how to teach reading to a child.
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"What are the steps to teach my child to read?"
My answer: (see videos in the comments below for explanations of the steps)
Step 1: Uppercase and Lowercase letter Identification
Step 2: letter sounds
Step 3: 2 letter blending and begin sight word memorization
Step 4: 3 letter blending, Short Vowel Word Families
Step 5: Vowel song and Long vowels words
Step 6: Digraphs, Blends, Irregular letter sound combinations, Controlled R words.