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Fun Phonics
Research has proven time and time again, children learn best through play and they recall well with frequent revision. Fun phonics is a free fun reading game based on fast-paced play with frequent revision as a basis. Children don't even realize they're learning to read.
For important information on how to best help your child learn to read scroll down.
If you write your child's name in largish letters you can get your child to trace over the shapes in their name with their fingers or a pencil.
Identify the bumps, curves, ovals and sticks they have in their name. Explain that everyone's name is made up of the same basic elements (ovals, sticks, bumps & curves) but the order and the number of these parts is different for each person.
Starting Position
Oliver
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Instructions for Learning Individual Sounds or Phonics
DISCOVER
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Did you know that in English our language is based on 26 letters which produce in total 44 sounds (phonemes,) some of which are produced by a single letter and some produced by combined letters (digraphs.)
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I've included some letter cards of the alphabet in the links below which you can copy and cut into squares. I suggest you use them for my simple modified game of snap to practise your children's sounds with them. Your children will have fun, and you'll find revising their sounds with them much more enjoyable than you might, by just reading them out.
N.B. It's important to realize we are first trying to identify the sound a letter makes rather than the name of that letter.
For example: a cow is called a cow, but it says 'Moo.'
You can use this explanation with your child so they understand the difference between the name of a letter and the sound it makes.
It's the sound a letter makes that helps your child read.
For example saying letter names C (See) A (Ay) T (Tee) does not help a child sound out c a t.
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I suggest you work through the sections (linked below) beginning with single sounds lower case.
Fun Phonics Games
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Additional links below How to Best Read a Book on the Best Parenting Advice.com is very useful to help identify reading and writing conventions such as: left to right, top to bottom, return sweep, completely finishing the text on one page before progressing to the next, how to read broken text, the use of capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks and full stops which can be taught incidentally to your child while reading them a book.
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There are also games on Best Parenting Advice.com that work on building a sight word vocabulary.
For more information go to FREE FUN READING GAMES below:
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The best parenting advice regarding creating engaged learners is to make learning as much fun as possible. That's why games work best to revise new information. Children practise skills over and over in play situations, yet aren't even aware they're doing it. Best parenting advice.com provides many examples of quick and easy games to help develop both early reading and maths skills.
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