Two more sounds that open up cat, cup, mug, sun, cot. Then the real test: reading a word she has never been shown.
You need: A cup, an umbrella
Three-period lesson. /c/ and /k/ make the same sound — say so plainly, she can handle it. k comes later.
You need: Moveable alphabet
cat, cup, mug, sun, cot, dig. She builds it, then runs a finger under it and says it. Building first, reading second.
You need: Paper
Write a word and hand it over saying nothing: sit, tap, pat, run. If she reads it and does it, she is decoding. This is the real test and it is also the best game.
Making her own snack start to finish — get it, prepare it, eat it, wash up.
Balance bike, climbing, running on sand.
Optional. Entirely real world, real children, real place — the most level-appropriate thing on the channel.
Short and real. Talk about what the children in it were doing.
Press ⌘P — only the sheets below print, never this plan. A4, no scaling.
Say the word slowly, stretching every sound. She finds each letter and lays it in a box — left to right.
The faint word on the right is for you to check against, not for her to copy.
Cut along the dashed lines. Keep them in an envelope.
No pictures on purpose — a picture lets her guess instead of read. Every word here is spellable from the twelve sounds she has met. Match each to the REAL object.
Week 7 — Sounds c · u — and the first words she reads. One line a day is plenty. Write what she did, not what she got right.
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Week 7 — Sounds c · u — and the first words she reads