Children are taught:
1. Recognizing sound-letter relationship
Children are taught the phonemes* and the letters that represent them.
Examples: /s/-s /æ/-a /t/-t
* Phoneme is the smallest sound units capable of conveying a distinct meaning in the English language.
2. Blending sounds to form simple words
Children learn to blend or merge sounds together to form simple words.
Examples: /s/ + /æ/ + /t/ → /sæt/ or ‘sat’
3. Segmenting words into individual sounds
Children learn to segment or break a word into individual phonemes that make up the word.
Examples: sat → /s/ + /æ/ + /t/
THE MNEMONICS (A-Z) LESSON
Mnemonic is one of the best strategies to teach beginning reader to remember the letters of the alphabet. Other benefits of mnemonics:
- Learning becomes more fun
- More effective in teaching young learners to recognize letters
- Helps improve reading ability in children with dyslexia
- Helps enhance short-term and long-term memory
- Enhances imagination with strongly visualized graphics
- Helps to break monotony associated with rote learning
