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Sound hunt. Pick one sound, like /p/. Walk around the house together and find things that start with it: pen, pot, pillow. Draw the letter big on paper and put a sticker next to it for every thing you find.
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I'm learning "English from Zero 3: short stories, reading and telling" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Letters make sounds".
What the lesson teaches:
- Reading starts with sounds. Children learn that words are made of small sounds, like /k/ /a/ /t/ in cat, and that letters stand for those sounds.
- Teach a few letter sounds at a time. Short, simple sounds come first. One example of a first group is /s/, /m/, /d/, /p/ and /a/.
- Show each letter big and small (P and p), with a picture of a word your child knows, like pig.
- Mix each new sound with sounds your child already knows, so old sounds are not forgotten.
- Many children know the names of a few letters, like the letters in their own name. Start there.
The exercise I'm working on:
Sound hunt. Pick one sound, like /p/. Walk around the house together and find things that start with it: pen, pot, pillow. Draw the letter big on paper and put a sticker next to it for every thing you find.
I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Letters make sounds" from the course "English from Zero 3: short stories, reading and telling".
Here's what the lesson says:
Every letter has a name and a sound. The letter c is called "see", but in cat it says /k/. Today we listen for the first sound in words we know. Before this course: English from Zero 2: everyday sentences and questions (course 6.9.2). Your child can ask and answer simple questions, like "What is this?" and "Where is it?", say their day, count to 100 and say the time. Now we start to read: sounds, words and little stories.
The activity:
Sound hunt. Pick one sound, like /p/. Walk around the house together and find things that start with it: pen, pot, pillow. Draw the letter big on paper and put a sticker next to it for every thing you find.
Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.