Teaching the Alphabet
Five times in week one to teach the alphabet and you are ready to test.
The fast track learners move on.
With a little more teaching the middle learners move on.
After a little more teaching so do the slower learners, but you will know if each child has an auditory deficit or a visual deficit or both.
So teaching can be targeted for this group now.
The digraphs are used in context
Only those digraphs which are more difficult to sound are taught.
Then the learning is tested.
A listening skill.
Children need to be taught how to listen to a word.
Listening for the beginning sound is easier than listening for the ending sound.
a e i o u. The short vowels are taught first (excepting y).
The hooks tap, hen, pin, dog and run are used to teach;
a book of words for each vowel sound.
The words chosen are high count writing words.
The method for reading all words is introduced.
Identify the vowel sound, then the beginning sound, then the ending sound.
See and hear and put together. The skill for reading.
