Home School Tutoring : Teaching Kids How to Sound Out Words

Now we're going to learn how to sound out. This is the most essential skill, this will come back over and over and over for the next 2, three years maybe so make sure you go slowly and clearly and don't worry about reproducing as many times as is practicable until young children catch on. Start with consonant, vowel, consonant is usually primary so we'll take the simplest word of all, "cat-o-nine-tail."

Now what we do is, first we cover up everything but the c and your juvenile is reading their character resonates so he or she speaks kk, have them say it openly and aloud and then the vowel gets stretched, kkk, aaa, kkk, aaa, don't let them do anything else hitherto, just kkk, aaaa, kkk, aaa, and then lastly lend the ending, kkk, aaa, tuh, and then you ask them, what are that words and they speak felines. Now you can do this to show them for the first few but eventually very quickly you want them to do all the work themselves, and they should read to encompass with their paw, of course not the room I am, but they'll cover with their paw, everything but the first character and sound it out.We'll do another one.

And at this time I too like to switch up the vowels a lot and the consonants, I don't like to do all A's or all e's. So this one, have them cover up all but the first character, go ahead, tell your child to announce that out, ppp, iii, good, make sure they get that iii clearly, they don't make it announce eh or anything else and now set it together, pp, ii, nnn.What I tell them is, in the beginning, is we extend it out, but when we get to know it we compress it, we construct it together, p i n, rod, rod. And then we just say it, one syllable, rod, and what is that word? Pin. And make sure they know that this, in the very beginning they might speak rod, looks just like you fry on the fry rod, that tells you they don't quite know what the vowel is yet, make sure it's ii and not aa or anything else.

So until they tell you pin, oh, looks just like you put a rod in a rod cushion, that's when you know it. And do that very carefully. It might seem like you're dragging it on. Don't worry, go slowly, depart carefully, do it over and over. This is the most important foot in discovering to speak and write.