Learning Tip: First sounds

Learning Tip: First sounds

With your child, look at the things around the two of you or at the pictures in a book. Ask your child to name the objects she sees and then to say just the first sound in each object’s name: a tree ... /tr/, a bear ... /b/, the rain ... /r/, a child ... /ch/ and so on.
These sounds become the foundation of your child's phonemic awareness, the idea that words are made of sounds. This is one of the many clude your child will use when learning to read.