Literacy: Letters and Sounds

For the past two months, we have been practising our letters and sounds! We have learned all the letters in the alphabet and the sounds that they make. We've used Leapfrog's Letter Factory video to help us!

Learning the letters in the alphabet and their sounds is a great starting point for learning how to read. We've been learning the difference between a letter, the sound that it makes, and a word. This would be a fun and easy game to play at home! Here are some other things you can work on at home to improve your child's pre-reading skills:

• practise holding a book upright and turning the pages
• listening for words that rhyme and trying to generate rhyming words (i.e., "Do man and can rhyme? What rhymes with dog?")
• asking what the beginning sound in a word is (i.e., "What is the first sound you hear in the word 'monkey'?")
• asking what the individual sounds in a word are (i.e., "The word 'moon' has 3 sounds. What are they?") - m/oo/n

Keep up with your home reading on a weekly basis, reading to your child at home every night, and writing your name!