Hooked on Phonics

A little humor for your enjoyment:

Totally had Hooked on Phonics growing up as a kid.

Let's talk phonics! Basic alphabet sounds are essential to teach.  It builds the entire foundation for reading! If your little is very little like mine, identifying the letter is a perfect way to start. These cards can help.  After they master letter recognition, they can start working on the sounds. These cards will help with that too. The final step is to start putting together letters to make simple words. An example would be cat or job. This will give your child the basic understanding creating words with letter sounds.

                           

However, how many times have you come to a word that doesn't follow the simple sounds of the alphabet? The English language can get pretty confusing,  This is when you would start teaching the other phonics. Don't worry, we included those other phoncis in the set too. Some examples are vowel sounds (there are 2 for each vowel), other letter combinations like ch, sh, or ou and ow, and the syllable -le. All of which are in a lot of words.

When walking into a school classroom you might have noticed on the wall is the alphabet. Did you notice that it included a lot more that than your ABC song? If it didn't, then it most definitely should! These are what we can PHONICS CARDS, when teaching school we would refer to the phonics cards on a multiple basis. They are a tremendous help for kids to remember the sounds for certain spelling patters.

You're probably thinking okay my child is too young for this and you are probably right. I am not gonna just go start teaching my 3 year old vowel teams. However, I do have all the phonics cards up. I believe that if they at least have access to them and can see them later on they will be able to recognize them and make a connection making it easier to learn and remember later on.

Here is an example of how you can use those phonics cards when teaching your child phonics.  You are going through words like "cat" or "dog" and your little is doing a really good job at sounding each sound out and then putting all the sounds together to create the entire word. But then you both came to a word that had a harder phonics sound, like "ch." After they struggle for a little bit (don't jump in too eagerly), you gently remind them to remember the "chick card." If you refer to the cards by their picture, it makes it much easier for them to remember. Plus it has the phonic sound on it, bonus! They then would remember the sound or look at the card for a hint and then be able to put the word together.

So whether your child is learning the basic letters of the alphabet (included), or are learning the more complex phonic sounds (also included), we highly encourage you to get this up on your walls! You can download these cards purchasing them here or here. Or, you got it, we can send them to you already cut and laminated ready to hang if you buy them here.