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1st Reading Helps
The following is provided if you have young children ages 0 to 12 years and are interested in information to help their reading skills. This also helps for any age person that is older that may be delayed in reading:
If your child is old enough to attend public school, or if you are considering home schooling, you may have already assisted your child to practice on the little reading projects that certain children have brought home to place on their refrigerator for letter-sound match practice. Or, you may be listening to your child read from his or her Elementary Library reader.
It is also beneficial to start an At-Home Tales journal designated as a weekly or monthly writing project that your child dictates to you as the author of their own monthly personal story. You can type it for them or write it for them as they look on. You can ask them details to explain more about the story so that they can expand their writing. Eventually, you won’t be needed at all as the transcriber. The story should tell about an event that happened during that month’s identified Holiday celebrations or other family happening.
On this blog page, the 1st Parent Help Page below provides your child a screen format of letter-sound matches and the expected initial sounds of all the letters. This section has “ABC Initial Practice” and “Letter-Sound Words.” Short Readers will be added for reading practice later. Please test your child to determine letter names and sounds. As an activity, you can have your child cut out pictures from a magazine that matches the letter-sound matches in the beginning letters of the words. Later, your child will also need to practice the ending sound on words and you can test your child verbally if they identify correct letter sounds at word beginnings and endings. You can practice the letter sound matches in words that are spelled phonetically in the “Letter-Sound Words” section of this web page (see 1st Parent Help page).
1st Parent Help
ABC Initial Practice
ABC List
PROBLEM THAT YOUR CHILD HAS LIMITED WORD RECOGNITION?
The first skill needed to read is recognition of letter-sound matches and word-family drill practices (word families such as “at”, “an”, “ap”) that will insure phonemic and phonic skills.
DO NOT CONSIDER THAT YOUR CHILD IS TOO OLD TO NEED THIS LETTER-SOUND MATCH SKILL. INITIAL FOUNDATIONS OF READING AND WRITING REQUIRE YOUR CHILD TO MASTER THIS BASIC SKILL OF READING.
Some 5th grade students and above have not mastered their letter-sound matches. Letter identification by name of letter and sound of letter is needed to progress in reading.
PLEASE CHECK THIS WITH YOUR CHILD. YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE THE LETTER AND THE SOUNDS OF EACH LETTER IDENTIFIED IN THE BEGINNING SOUND OF THE WORD BELOW. (Except X will be sounded at the last of the word below.) In the list below, basic letter-sound matches do not include the long vowel that sounds the vowel’s name and it does not use the alternate sounds of the consonants c (s) and g (j). C is pronounced hard with the k sound and g is pronounced hard as in ‘give.’ Also, it does not use the alternate sound of y when it is used as a vowel (i.e. baby/my).
A a as in Apple
B b as in Bell
C c as in Cat
D d as in Dog
E e as in Egg
F f as in Fox
G g as in Gas
H h as in hat
I i as in ink
J j as in jam
K k as in kitten
L l as in log
M m as in mop
N n as in net
O o as in ox
P p as in pin
Q q as in queen
R r as in red
S s as in sun
T t as in tent
U u as in up
V v as in van
W w as in well
X x as in ax
Y y as in yell
Z z as in zip
Letter-Sound
If your child does not know all the letters or sounds when presented out-of-order, then please go back and play games with your child until recognition. This may take 4 weeks or more. DO NOT USE THE LIST BELOW AT THIS TIME. YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE THE LETTER NAMES AND SOUNDS OUT OF SEQUENCE of ABC ORDER PRIOR TO USING THE FOLLOWING LIST OF PHONETICALLY SPELLED WORDS.
Please see the “ABC Initial Practice” title under 1st Parent Help as identified and see the sounds that your child is expected to identify immediately, along with the recognition of the letter name. Practice these sounds and letter names out of order after your child can say the ABCs in rote by order.
As cited earlier, certain letters have more than one sound. But initially PLEASE only focus on the one sound identified in the “ABC Initial Practice” title above. There are many excellent letter books with bright colors and variety to help your child master their letter and sound matches. You can check the Public Library. Please ask the Librarian for help. Furthermore, there is often inexpensive letters and sound books that I have purchased at the Dollar General Store. These books greatly assisted my granddaughter to be an excellent top reader in her class.
A webpage for at-home practice if you have the internet can assist with letter-sound matches at www.starfall.com (there are many other sites) or if you do not have a computer, you can use your Public Library card for access on the internet for your child to work on letter sound matches. But most important is your parent-child interaction in a loving environment where the letter names and sounds become a pleasant interchange.
Have fun with your child in this.
If your child has already mastered his/her ABC letter names and sound matches, but has a limited or no word recognition —SELECT 10 TO 20 WORDS PER WEEK from the following list of phonetically spelled words. Make certain the list you make is small enough to master in a week without placing undue stress on your child, and go over the words 10 to 20 minutes daily reminding your child of the sound that each letter makes and point to the letters as you say each sound in sequence from left to right to show visually and auditorily how each letter-sound would follow the other in a blended sound until your child has immediate phonemic (sound) recognition of the letters.
Short Readers will be added to this site in the future to supplement and assist speed recognition in these phonetically spelled words. And remember that word recognition is dependent upon your child. So, 10 to 20 words per week may be too many. Five words may be best per week. Here is a list of word families with all short vowel sounds of a,e, i, o, u.
Word families with the short a sound as the “a” in apple:
at
bat
bats
cat
fat
hat
mat
Nat
Nat’s
pat
pats
rat
sat
vat
an
ban
can
Dan
Dan’s
fan
Jan
Jan’s
man
Nan
Nan’s
pan
ran
tan
van
am
dam
ham
jam
“mam”
Pam
Pam’s
ram
Sam
Sam’s
yam
cap
lap
nap
map
maps
tap
taps
Dad
Dad’s
had
bad
mad
sad
bag
bags
rag
rags or Rags (as in a pet’s name)
tag
tags
wag
wags
Extra Sight Words that will help with coming reading books to be available on this site soon:
PLEASE GO OVER THESE SIGHT WORDS ALSO:
is
a
the
on
not
look
he
to
in
see
her
his
she
and
I
it
Word families with the short sound of e as the “e” in egg.
Ed
bed
fed
led
Ned
red
Ted
wed
beg
leg
peg
egg
Mel
bell
fell
sell
tell
well
yell
hem
Ben
den
hen
men
pen
ten
yes
Bess
less
mess
bet
get
jet
let
met
net
pet
set
vet
wet
yet
Word families with the short sound of i as the “i” in ink.
bit
bits
fit
fits
hit
hits
sit
sits
it
it’s –Two words in one — “it is”
its — Shows ownership — “Its eye hurt.”
Only possessive
that does not have apostrophe.
pin
pins
win
wins
tin
in
six
fix
mix
did
lid
lids
hid
rid
Sid
him
rim
Jim
Tim
his
lip
lips
dip
dips
tip
tips
rip
rips
zip
zips
big
fig
figs
wig
wigs
pig
pigs
dig
digs
if
is
Word families with the short sound of o as the “o” in ox.
Bob
job
rob
mob
sob
cot
dot
got
hot
lot
not
pot
rot
cod
God
nod
rod
sod
odd
dog
fog
hog
jog
log
doll
boss
loss
moss
toss
on
Don
Ron
hop
mop
pop
top
mom
Tom
ox
box
fox
Word families with the short sound of u as the “u” in up.
sun
fun
gull
dull
cuff
huff
bud
mud
bun
gun
nun
run
gut
hut
nut
rut
mutt
putt
puff
buff
dug
hug
jug
mug
rug
tug
but
cut
hum
sum
cub
hub
rub
sub
tub
bug
us
bus
Gus
fuss
up
cup
pup
gum
buzz
fuzz
gum
If these words are easy for your child to sound out without your help, go on to 2nd Parent Help.