07/06/2022
Learning how to segment initial sounds is an important milestone when learning how to read. Manipulating sounds within words is the foundation of phonological awareness; a pre-literacy skill taught heavily throughout PreK, kindergarten, and first grade.
Looking to support your child build early reading skills, here are some tips to practice the initial sounds.
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What you need:
👉 A Piece of Paper, some colour pencils.
✍️ Sounds & alphabet, that the child is currently learning.
✍ Write each alphabet using a different colour.
Instruction:
👉 They have to draw a line to match the capital and lowercase alphabet. They need to name them and sound them out while joining them up.
🤯 Tricky part- when they join the line, they cannot be an overlapping line. example: when you connect from A to a, S to s. No overlapping.
🤯 Advance- use one colour to write all the alphabet, say a word example: "sun". Ask the child the initial sound they hear in the word "Sun"? And ask them to match the initial sound by using a specific colour pencil to join them up.
This activity focuses on
❤ Fine motor skill
❤ Strategy thinking - not overlapping the lines.
❤ Identify colour
❤ Matching the capital and lowercase
❤ Able to hear the initial sounds.
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06/06/2022