The Easiest Way to Teach Any Child to Read
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2022
- In this video, I'll show you the easiest way to teach any child how to read. Please note: these are the same strategies I've used to teach hundreds of kindergarten and first grade students how to read and it's also the same step by step process that I used to teach my son to read when he was 2 years old. And I promise you that it will work for your little one as well!
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As a teacher with 16 years of experience, I can say you nailed it. Keeping it simple and focusing on the actual sounds the letters make is incredibly effective. Fantastic video, and you have a really great and clear presentation style. I'm going to recommend this channel to teachers and anyone with kids.
Schools used to teach phonics. Unfortunately they no longer do.
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They're starting to do so again
@@monividulen4988 I and the other teachers at our infant school started in October. some students still struggle, while others are in grade 1 already.
My 2 year old is reading now thanks to you!
Your 2 Old 😮 is hardly saing Words
@@sihemderbeli7460 ok
@@sihemderbeli7460Victoria Monet’s child could read at 11 there are videos to prove it so it’s not far fetched
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Mine is just now using sentences I NEED TO GET ON UR LEVEL!
Thank you so much… Being a retired reading interventionist this has been eye opening on how we were trained to teach reading. I have been retraining my brain to help my first grader read the right way!
You're welcome!
The problem with this is that it affects their comprehension. They are so glued to the pronunciation of the words they don’t even know what the meaning of the passage is.
@@GM-pu2lx how so? I’m considering this method, but there could be something to what you’re saying. Please elaborate
@@GM-pu2lxdon’t they need to decode before they can comprehend? I’m a first year teaching teaching 1st grade so I’m trying to learn as much as I can as there was no phonics class in college. And now that I’m teaching it’s, here’s this book follow the curriculum, good luck! I’m noticing that my students who can decode any book you put in front of them no problem struggle with comprehension when you ask what the book is about. They need to work on going into more detail. My kids who cannot read yet can’t even focus on comprehension because they aren’t able to read the words yet and their cognitive load is spent on trying to sound everything out.
I cannot read I live in Jamaica
I’m trying to teach my 7 year old to read and this is honestly the most thoroughly explained video I’ve seen so far. Appreciate it
Glad it was helpful!
Same here my 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration.
My children are grown and this video just happened to pop up as a suggestion for me but seems like it may be something you want to consider. If not this then definitely some Phonics books. I'm 60 and it was easier to learn to read back in the day because we were taught to sound out words through Phonics. The schools now are just teaching the children to memorize words. That's not really an effective way to learn to read. Hang in there it'll be ok. At 7 your baby is still young enough for you to help them make the corrections needed. Be well and get Phonics books.
@carolwilliams8840 Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate your kind words.
@@LouieTheFrenchie same here. my 7 year old is struggling and she might fail 1 grade 😪
Homeschool Teacher here and Tutor I agree with this method 👏🏽 You can tell when a child has learned to memorize the shapes of words and when they have learned blends. Knowing blend sounds helps give your child the ability to read new words with much more ease 👍🏽🤓
Hi! I saw where you mentioned you’re a homeschool teacher-I’m trying to decide whether I should homeschool my 5 year old or put him in public school but I have a dilemma: he struggles with speech (we are putting him in speech therapy), he struggles with identifying the letters of his ABC, he struggles to identify his numbers, and he can’t read yet.
A huge fear for me is not having the capability to homeschool him because of his issues he’s struggling with. I don’t know what else to do and I’m afraid he might fall behind IF I put him in public school.
I also have a 2-year old and am pregnant with my third! I’m so stressed and don’t know what to do!
Any advice from a homeschool teacher?
@@cookie6199 Congratulations On your 3rd 🥳💕 I have 3 kids too ☺️ I understand your position completely. I always tell parents you have it in you to homeschool, because God blessed you with your kids and He knew what they need, he’s blessed you with. You know your child and can create lesson plans to cater to their specific needs and learning style. Have you had him tested for dyslexia? There are many different forms of dyslexia and if he does have it, you will be able to understand how to assist him better. I tutored my godson for a while who has a form of dyslexia. My bestie, his mom, found out he had it after the school he was in kept treating him like he was less than and unable to learn. She knew he was so smart and could not understand what was going on. She took him out of that school, found out it was dyslexia, started homeschooling him and he has been thriving ever since! Your son may not have dyslexia and just needs a different way to help him with letter and number recognition. For example, my eldest can recall things from memory just from a spoken lesson, while my youngest learns best with working with his hands. I want to encourage you, you can teach, and your child can learn. I’ll type a whole page on here, so if you want to talk more feel free to DM on IG and we can set up a call or something 🤓♥️ Hope this helps some ♥️
As a physician, I have taught a lot of medical students and premeds. And Now with young ones at home, I find your videos extremely helpful as my teaching style isn’t always conducive to my 5 year olds. Thank you!
1 min in and I love this dude already. I can feel his good heart
Taught my daughter to read as a toddler 45 years ago. She graduated from HS 3 years early. Did this a a single mother who hadn’t finished college yet.
Keep up the good work parents. ❤
How did you do it if you don't mind me asking?
English is not my first language i learned it at 15yrs old and even though I can read and write it I didn't know how to teach my little one something i never learned myself like to sound out the words. Thank you! I'm excited to be learning together with my little one ; )
You're so welcome : ) So glad it's helpful!
SAME! I learned English right at 11 y/o , how did I learned ?WHO KNOWS! But thank you sir ! God bless
I've taught all 5 of my kids to read phonetically with the 1970s curriculum alphaphonics, its so worth it to teach them to read phonetically not by sight first.
I homeschooled mine with phonetics like I was taught in the 1970's - I literally can't hold a conversation with anyone under 50. No one has a vocabulary anymore.
I just responded to someone else's comment that schools used to teach phonics. Unfortunately they're just teaching them to memorize certain words. That's not really teaching them how to read. It's not the teachers, it's the ones who decide what the school's curriculum will be.
@@carolwilliams8840 yeah agreed, my 12 year old can now read at almost a college level and I taught her myself how to read phonetically, now she has the skill to decode words she’s never encountered. We do need some sight word memorizing because they don’t follow the traditional English language but it certainly shouldn’t be taught as the bulk of the curriculum
This is a fascinating subject for me as we have a friend with a 7 year old and they are quite behind in their reading. I have an 8 month old so I want him to be hitting the markers/developmental milestones when he gets to the age. I come from Zimbabwe and English is my second language. I cannot remember anything about phonics save for the fact that from the age of eight I started reading the national newspaper and I would consume everything and check the Dictionary too! I think by the time I was 10 I had stopped actively using a Dictionary as the meaning of most words was clear from the surrounding context. I guess for me the trick will be trying to get my son to the level!lol. I must add I'm a reader and I read a lot of novels; books about the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bible, magazines, books from the school library (all this before the Internet)
@@Magdalena287-Hi Magdalena. Is there a specific book that you used? I can try and get it on Amazon or eBay. I'm based in the UK so maybe it might be a book that wasn't available here in the 70s to start with
I remember I learnt how to read by learning the sound of the letters based on their stories. Each letter was a character, for exemple "a" is a clumsy man with a cane and once we told him that his cane was backward, he would go "aaaa !". It made learning so fun through the stories !
Where is the system lol I would love this❤
@@Eye_Am_Divine_33 Unfortunately I am a french native speaker so it was in french, however you can see examples of the letters with their personality, the system is called "Les Alphas" and I suppose there is some kind of equivalent in English somewhere
@@kallychicken7654-I wish my french was at a level where I could use conversation now. Do you teach French by any chance Kally?
@@town944folk Non, malheureusement. (No, unfortunately I don't)
I love these lessons so much that every time I watch the videos, I feel like leaving a comment just as a respect to him.
Thank you so very much for your video. I appreciate your enthusiasm and even your method. Additionally, (and i say this as a mother, grandmother, former bookstore owner and retired early childhood teacher) it is vitally important that all cell phones and other electronics not be given to babies because they will destroy (or sabotage) their appetite for books. I can't stress this enough. To give a little one a phone or computer before they're hooked on books is like giving them dessert before they eat their peas and carrots. Also, the best tried and true way to teach a young one to read is to role model reading for them (naturally) every single day; don't make it a chore. Read to them every day especially at bedtime using books with rhyming words-- like fox in sox by dr seuss. And, take them to the library and sit in the children's section with them while looking at all the books and take some home and return them in a week to get more. (The library's offerings are free to borrow after all.) They'll be the head of the class by the time they start school. Keep up the good work!
This is very true. The screens and electronics have destroyed the natural curiosity and the yearn for reading. My children are spread out in age and I see a huge difference in my older verses the younger. Youngest had tech at a very young age. I wish I could go back and change it.
Seeing a man do this is beautiful. Thank you sir
My kiddo has struggled so much with blending. Thank you so much for breaking this down. I dropped all our English and went right back to learn to read and blending out loud w nothing is a part of it and I now see how this step is so very important. I feel like this is the piece we have been missing and maybe we are going to get back on track with it this way!
How’d it go???
My heart lights up when I listen to you. Thank you Sir for what you do.
You showed me to teach sounds first and our 25mo has it down pact. Almost started on paper but glad I came here first now that we’re ready to blend! TY TY
Thank you so much! Teaching my 4-year-old reading now. The blending was something I had no idea to teach!
Loving what you do, Brother! AWESOME!!!!
Don't give away your power. The shirt that you wear is the canvas for your branding.
Instead of "NIKE" your shirt should read "TODDLERS CAN READ!"
This is what I intuitively did with my child, who is 4 and can read on her own. Because she knows all the sounds, and we’d practice learning them only a few at a time, for a short amount of time each day, she can sound out words for her self, which also builds confidence and self esteem. We also read at least an hour everyday. This has worked wonders for us.I can definitely say this method is great for teaching kids and expands as they learn more and more because they know the fundamentals
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it! I teach kindergarten and I have adjusted some of the ways I teach my students based on what you have taught. What you say rings true.
You a are teacher of teachers. I have have been trying to teach children how to read, but this short video has opened my insight of doing it. Much love from Zambia 🇿🇲
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for what you do!
Thanks for this video !! So happy to know that we are heading in the right direction with my toddlers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Great instructions! I’m a new reading tutor and this has really helped.
Thanks much ❤️
My stepson is about to be 16. He’s special needs, has epilepsy and had a severe seizure at age 3 and lack of oxygen for an extended amount of time made him unable to learn. He cannot read, write, recognize numbers, letters, words etc. I am not a teacher, I am a nurse. BUT during COVID he stayed with us for 3 months straight (I happened to be on materno leave) and I taught him how to spell his name, write his name and follow an outline on letters, numbers , and shapes. I KNOW he can learn. I am going to give this a shot and pray it helps him. Thank you
You’re an angel sent for this generation. I am heartbroken to know how many kids at school can’t read but just get pushed through until they get held back. God bless you. ❤
Thank you so much! Love how clearly you communicate and break this down.
I’ve been considering homeschooling but I have been worried about being able to teach my daughters. This just made me feel confident!
Thank you. I’m going to take these steps. My son is a behind and he just entered the first grade. He knows his basics sounds but can’t blend well.
I was going through some stuff and not focused. I want to make up and get him reading this school year.
As a music teacher, this is blowing my mind because so much of this method can carry over into music education. Love your stuff man
Thank you, thank you thank you for this I am now at ease and I have taken some of the stress and anxiety out of what comes next with helping my baby learn to read I truly appreciate these videos
Thank you. Teaching my son blending sounds is the difficult part for me and him. He doesn't know how to blend them and this will help me teach him how. He getting better and I know that progress will continue
Your passion is refreshing and inspiring
This is gold. My son is going to Kindergarten and I will be using this. Thank you!
Btw, we are a trilingual home and thankfully my spoken English is impeccable. But folks who English is their second language and have a thick accent- don’t try this at home. lol. I just chuckled thinking of some of my relatives attempting this. 😂
Bless your heart!!! Thank you!!!
As a first-time homeschooling mom I cannot thank you enough for sharing.
Thank you for this video. I really appreciate all the information you gave without a pressure filled sales pitch. This has relieved so much anxiety for me regarding teaching my children to read. It seemed so overwhelming before but I can see a clear path now. Thank you again. 🙏
You're welcome!
Without ever watching your video when I show my daughter a word I sound it for her lol because I noticed when I ask her what letter it is she says the letter like M but hearing it in my head I said this isn’t going to help her.. she’s going to kinder now so thank you!!! I am trying my best to help her stay sharp and on top
This was great! Thank you! The part of teaching the sounds first without any picture cards was so clarifying for me!! That makes so much sense!
Not just for children... I can use this for my adult Literacy class. Thank you!
This is how I learned it and my children are also getting it taught in each sound… then connecting Them… We are from Denmark 🎉
Such a good video. Thank you for simplifying it!!🙌🏼
Omg i can't wait to show this to my friend. Her daughter is struggling to learn and when im there helping her she does great but when my friend is teaching her daughter she tells me she just cant do it. Which imo is bs. Now i have to find a video to teach my friend patience lol.
Thank you so much ❤️ I'm a first time homeschooling mom. I have been struggling to teach my son and had the right start, but when it comes to blending I have been stumped. I didn't even realize that was the issue until yesterday and then found your video. This is really helpful! To think I was going to go to sight words and flash cards like that next! I'm making the letter sound cards today to help with sound recognition
I've been homeschooling for almost 10 years and have 5 kids, look into the curriculum alphaphonics, I taught all of them to read phonetically with this curriculum. You never want to teach sight words first, when he gets to higher reading he wont be able to decode new words if he's relying on memorization
Thank you! Let’s see how this goes with my 2 year old … look forward to watching your videos
Thank you. I love your videos. This is how I learned to read in Brazil. Portuguese is my first language and we’d learn to blend all the constant with with vowels. Example: La, Le, Li, Lo, Lu and we’d practice that over and over. My little one is currently learning letter sounds
My son turned 2 yesterday and he knows how to read! How did he learn that?! Me and my husband are so surprised!
Hi! I'm also from Brazil and I would like to ask you a question. Are you teaching your child to read in Portuguese or english? I have a multilingual child and I'm so confused on how to do that and which language I should start! 🤯
My 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration. Thank you ❤
I have a free workshop and 3 reading courses too if you’re interested in more support- I wish you all the best!
@toddlerscanread Great! Thanks if you could please provide me the information I would greatly appreciated.
Thank you for posting this video. It was so helpful for my daughter. I thought that she had the letter sounds down at her age, but I realize that she was struggling with reading and didn’t understand why, but after watching this video, I realize that she struggles with the vowel sounds, so we are now working on mastering all 26 letter sounds.
This guy is literally teaching the next generation of the world, really powerful glad to see still good people out there
I’ve got twin daughters who are 3 years old. I’ve been struggling so much trying to get them to read and talk more. I really hope this will help me 🙏🏼
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
02:03 🧒 The key to teaching any child to read is understanding how learning to read works.
02:29 🔡 Start by teaching children the sounds of letters, not their names.
03:11 📖 Teach children how to blend sounds together, initially doing it out loud without written words.
05:18 📚 Instead of teaching specific words, focus on teaching the skills needed to read any word.
06:14 🔠 Progress by teaching more complex sounds, vowel combinations, and rules.
08:16 💻 Explore available resources based on your child's learning stage, such as free training for beginners or advanced courses for more complex reading skills.
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Thank you so much
I honestly got teary-eyed when you showed how to practise blending, because it made so much sense and showed me all the things we often erronously take for granted when trying to teach.
This also reminds me of trying to learn hiragana and katakana, my brain likes to take the shortcut of learning the words rather than merging the characters, which means I never really learn how to read new words. Learning Kanji is a different story though…
Nks for your genuine help brother.
May our Almighty Creator bless you and your family ❤❤❤❤
Your videos enabled me for my students, thank you!
Thank you very much, Spencer, for sharing this video with us 🙏😊.
I've got flashcards with first words on them and this is exactly how I'm teaching my son. A week in and its starting to click. I haven't heard of "blend" sounds before, it makes sense so I'll definitely be doing that. This is a great video. Thanks
*my son starts homeschool at the end of the year, if anyone has any good homeschool resources for young children that are really good, I would really appreciate it.
A fun way to really get them going as they learn the sounds is to practice saying words through the sound like m a d and having them act out what they hear. It takes them a bit to get it at first, but helps them get good at blending the letter sounds.
Thanks for the help! My 1st yr trying to homeschool and it has been a learning process for me!
You're welcome! Glad it helps. My free 30 minute training has helped lots of families teaching their children to read too if you want to check it out: www.toddlersread.com/free-workshop
In England, this is common practice. Every primary school must subscribe to a phonics scheme. They are all different but they all are based from this. This is how I learnt and is how I teach my class as a student teacher, to read.
Wards the best scheme? My 6 year old iys crazy he can say a sentence and use big words and say it and the right content but when it comes to reading it’s difficult and he’s just now learning words and blending but trying to get him up to par and further along before heading to 1st grade
@@broncos8664 I’m used to Read Write Inc but I couldn’t say if any other schemes are better as I haven’t seen them.
Currently teaching my 4 year old to read, this information is gold!
Glad it was helpful!
Im at the stage where we are starting to blend out loud, Thank you for your videos 😀
You're welcome!
I almost want to cry.. dude thank you for what you do..
Blending the sounds is a but challenging. He knows most of the sounds working on blending and man oh man its tough! Thanks for your vids they help alot!
love this bro, I started off slowing down when I pronounced new words to him, really sounding it out like a song almost at times. hoping that will be helping your process work even smoother
Spencer this is gold!! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for for all the help..... I really need all this lessons myself
This reminds me a lot of the book I’m using to reteach my 9 year old and begin teaching my 4 year old. It’s good to see it in action.
The book I’m using is Reading Reflex. My 9 year old tried phonics and whole language without success. He literally tricked me into thinking he was at level because he could look at the pictures and beginning sounds and perfectly create the sentences.
This new strategy of phono-graphics method and no descriptive pictures is a game changer. No wonder the US only has like a 40% reading success rate while others use this method with better outcomes.
Excellent! Thank you!
you are amazing. thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for this simple lesson much appreciated! Your awesome!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! God bless you
Funny because this is exactly the same method i was taught as a kid in France in the 90s. I realize now that I have seen Americans use the memorize the word and picture method instead of the sound method. So interesting !
Thanks bro I’m a 22 year old dad and I get a little frustrated with myself because I had no new ideas 💡but I’m definitely sticking to this technique. And I will let you know in the near future how it worked. Thank you very much @Toddlers Can Learn 😊
Glad it was helpful. You’ve got this!
We are doing our students a disservice when we only teach students to sound out words. It’s not a one approach vs another approach way of thinking. Yes we teach how to blend sounds for letters in words together by modeling & then having them do with us and then they do but we must for concept knowledge development, teach word sense using a pictures too. We do this to teach them that that words can have meaning which is done through connecting a word with its picture. This is crucial for thinking & language development esp with our slower lower level learners while we read and not just spitting out sounds for letters. Some cannot hear the sounds to differentiate those lt sounds so they must have a way to compensate & think of the words meaning. The connection of the picture with the word helps students realize words can have meaning along with the sounds for the letters in words. As educators it is very short sighted of us to only teach sounding out. When we read we do so to gain meaning. Not just word call. We need to do both. Make the sounds & think of what makes sense along with using pictures. This is where the link to comprehending what we read becomes relevant. These approaches go hand and hand. Word families help connect the idea that more then one word can have that word part & helps to generate new words from known words which in turn accelerates more word knowledge and known words in a child’s memory bank. Linking to a new word to a known word helps it stick in their long term memory. Linking to the known helps create new paths in our brains for permanentancy. Helping students see these connections lends to brain development. Eventually we do not want them sounding out every word. We want to foster fluency and automaticity. We need to do ALL of these things to help our children thrive and grow. Yes they need to do this but it’s not the only thing students need to learn to do while reading. We need to take it to the next level or kids will be stuck in this sound it out stage. There is more to reading then just sounding out an unknown word. They need to know how but it’s not the be all end all. Wish it was this simple when it comes to kids comprehending what they read. They need to be encouraged to think of the meaning in order to comprehend in the long run.
Thank you so much for this! I'm going to teach my grandchildren to read because it is such an important skill and they're ready now. I'm not trying to give them a "one up" so they'll be at the top of their class when they're in kindergarten - I just think it's so important and I'm afraid that with all that teachers are burdened with (my parents were both teachers) that there might be a delay in learning this skill if I leave it up to the school. They're ready now!!!
These tips are common sense, which does NOT automatically translate to practice. In fact, our tendency is to do the opposite most of the time. I’ve seen most of these strategies before, and I do try to implement them when working with daughter. These videos are a reminder of how often I resort to old bad habits, and refreshers are needed. Your videos hit all the details that really matter. Refreshers with actual examples are needed in order avoid slipping into old bad habits. Especially true when working with our own children! Thank you for these videos!
Why don't you download and save this on your desktop and then at least weekly you can review to make sure you are doing everything as described in the video
Thank you so much for your content🙏🏼
Thank you for this. I homeschooled my kids with phonics and all went well. Now, I have 3 adopted kids with Down syndrome, and we have memorized the sounds, but can't seem to surmount the blending obstacle. We'll try blending out loud!
Why on earth do you only have a few thousand views this is such good information thank you!
Omg thank youuuuu I’ve been struggling with helping my son blend words🙏🏾
This is awesome! Thank you!
This is great. Thank you. My soon to be 5 year old has known abc since 2 but is still struggling with phonics when they aren't in order. Tried Hooked on phonics and she was not ready for that reason. We will give this a try!!
Also wow this method is so simple and inexpensive. Abc flash cards can be purchased a the Dollar tree store as well as a large note pad instead of a dry erase board. Emergent reader books at the library are free!
On average how long foes this method take for 4-5 year age range. She knows the sounds but gets confused on some when they aren't in order.
Thank you. Great resource. 👍♥️
You are welcome!
I had to stroke but I can't read very well but your program gives me better everyday I thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you so much
I wish I was taught by someone like you when I was a child. To this day as an adult, I don't know how to sound out some words and have to use my phone sometime to help. I basically had the memorize the words. Now that I am a parent it is even harder for me to teach them something like this and this wasn't taught to me. My first language isn't English and came to Canada very young (grade 3). I don't even know where to start. My child is grade 1 now. I feel like a failure unable to correctly teach her how to read.
This was so compelling! I was fully invested in your teaching. Great Job!
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. My 4-year-old daughter was being taught compound words with pictures. I did some research on how I could better help her. She was clueless about blending words. We've watched your video together. Before the end of the video, she was blending the 3 letter words.
I had an excellent first grade teacher in 1970 who taught us to read phonetically. Most of us were also able to even write short essays of four or five sentences at age 6.
Then when playing "school" with my four-year-old sister at home I repeated the same reading techniques that my teacher did for us... just while playing. In a few weeks my sister was reading almost as well as I was.
My mother came into the room and was amazed to see that her six-year-old had taught her four-year-old to read!
It was nothing complicated. We were just playing "school" and it just fell into place.
Going to try this with my son, he struggles with ID. Praying it works.
this is the most helpful video ive seen on this thank you!
Thank you my 1.5 year old is ready for the verbal blending ….I wasn’t sure what to do after he’s gotten great practice with letter names and sound.
THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was looking for!! Extremely helpful video*****
Glad to hear it!
Omg this is so challenging I just realized I was never taught how to sound letters out. I was taught to memorize words. Now I have a 8yr old who can not learn the way I was taught 😩
Yup…helped me with my five year old and now (8)she’s a great reader with comprehension 📖
Amazing thank you I wasn’t feeling confident but this was a great help
Love the tips thanks a lot!
Again we’re kindred spirits this one though I fell short on the out loud blending. Thank you.
Thank you so much because my son came home one day and say to me mom I can't read so I started working on him the same way I am seeing you are doing
My 3 year old read “the cat sat on a branch.” Instead of “the cat sat on a twig.” She was looking at the picture and guessed. I now cover the pictures with an index card.
That’s how we learned, phonics, pictures came much later. However letters came first. Thank you for this.