However, each word has its own letters. Each word can stand all by itself, the way water can stand in a glass.
Ask your child if his name has its own letters? Yes. Let's look at the letters in his name. What are the letters in his name? Does his name have all the ABCs?
No. His name has a special small group of letters that always need to be printed in the same order. Say: "All words have their own letters, always the same letters, always printed in the same order."
While reading an easy-to-read story with your child, let your child point to each word as you move his finger from one word to the next.
After you read a page or two, ask if your child can remember one of the words in this story. Help your child remember one, like: cat, kitten, dog, puppy, bird. Then, look through the page, pointing to the chosen word.
Tell you child that his chosen word always has the same letters and the letters are printed in the same order. This makes it easy for us to find the word when we are looking for it.
Let's see if this is true. Can we find the word again in this story? Let's count how many times we see this word on the page, and in the whole story.
End this lesson by asking your child to print his chosen word on a sheet of paper you can keep for the purpose of listing his new words. Let him print his name at the top of the sheet.
You may like to look at my Panda bear book. It does not practice letters except for the tricky set of b, d, g, p, q. The Panda teaches many very important reading lessons. I use ebay as my website. Search Instant Reading Help all my books will pop up.
Have a fun with reading, Mary Maisner
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