Date January 29th, 2010

Hearing letter sounds?

Comment 4 Comments Category Category: Literacy Activities
Tags Tags: at, Hearing, hearing beginning sounds, hearing letter sounds, Letter, sounds

I have a child who knows letter sounds but does not seem hear those sounds in a word (mainly beginning sounds since that is what we are focusing on). For example, I can ask her to point to or write a /m/, /s/, /t/, /r/, /long e/ or /short a/ and she is successful 98% of the time. But on the other hand, she can not match a picture to the sound…even when I emphasize the beginning sound. For example, moon, /mmmm/ “Hear that sound?” /mmmm/oon. And she’ll put it under e. Or /aaaa/ /aaa/nt ant. And she’ll put it…

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Date November 20th, 2009

Does decoding (the early literacy skill) refer decoding print words or decoding sounds in spoken words?

Comment 4 Comments Category Category: Literacy Skills
Tags Tags: at, Decoding, Early, early literacy, Literacy, print, refer, skill, sounds, Spoken, Words

Decoding is a word used in some major early literacy literature, but I don’t find any clear definition of what it is.

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