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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure your DC really knows all the letters and all the letter sounds.  Practice this in fun ways and with song(Leapfrog’s video or Frig phonics is great for this).

Get some rhyming books.  These do a great job at getting kids to hear sounds.

Once you’ve mastered the sounds take one Ending VC pattern For instance AT.  Make sure your DC can pronounce, and heat the A and T sound in AT.  Use it to make words with the entire alphabet.  Does matter if the words are real.  It’s just practice.   Keep reading, including the rhyming books. Keep practicing. Once they’ve mastered that one, or are getting frustrated with it add another(AN).

[b]Helpful hints - Be sure to not add additional sounds to the letter sounds.  For instance ‘T’ sound many often drag out to sound like ‘Tuh’.  Be then when a kid is trying to blend the word C-A-T, they don’t hear that ‘Uh’ part.[/b]

Also when practicing blending the letters, start by saying/singing each letter sound distinctly, then have them try to drag it without taking a breathe between sounds. (Clapping the drag slowly. Then speed it up.(clapping the beats of the drag quietly helps. Then say the combined sound. They should begin to hear the sounds.[/quote]

Man I did this all the time when practicing with my kid until they told me numerous times that I was saying things wrong. In retrospect, I wish that I had gone through some phonics lessons myself first. I highly recommend that any parent brush up on phonics first although I don’t have a recommended resource.

Somehow they overcame my conflicting mispronunciations and learned to read, I think it clicked more on first grade.  But I probably could have just been hands off and it would have been the same way.[/quote]

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