I have spoken language pathologist for 25 years. When I am doing speech therapy with a 3 year old child to correct the error sounds of their speech, I think that they are not readers yet, so they can understand the sounds and letters already owned by elderly children I do not have the same understanding about. Some preschool children may know the letters and may know the songs of the alphabet. However, the relationship between letters and sounds is not usually learned by children until they go to kindergartens or kindergartens. This is much slower than the connection should be established. Characters and sounds are different concepts and it is important to teach the relationship between the two as well as teaching the letters themselves. I will tell you the name of the letter paired with the written letter and teach the sounds that the letter makes. These are all taught simultaneously to give the children a thorough understanding of the relationship and to give them good basic knowledge to help them learn reading skills more easily.
Parents will generally teach their children classical alphabet songs sung to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star songs. Songs are a great way to memorize information for people of all ages. When children are singing it is also important to combine what children are singing with a picture of letters. If there is no concrete relationship between singing and listening letters and letters looking and writing, children are just learning random songs. To learn the labels of pictures and objects is how you learned the vocabulary already known by these young children. Parents labeled things in their environment. Every child should have some sort of alphabet poster / chart that should be drawn out when ABC songs are sung. They should be taught to touch each letter as they are singing it. This will avoid that a single "LMNOP" cluster they clearly think is a single character.
The next step for children to learn is that all letters sound. This phrase will help them learn that there is a difference between letters and the sounds they make. The same table can be used when teaching children that each letter sounds. I like to use songs that I heard in my pre-k classroom with all my children of speech therapy. I take the sound they are aiming and put it into a song. The song is adapted to the song "Hot Cross Pan" and it will look like this: "D is duh, D is duh, all letters sound, D stands duh" This is all sound It can be used. When singing a vowel, I use a short vowel. When vowels are long, they say the name of their own letter. Children will learn rules for when vowels say their own names as learning rules to read in school. Since short vowels are found more frequently, I think it makes sense for it to expose them. (Top), "u" (top). These tend to make it difficult for children to learn to read and write, any jumpstart is helpful. In the pre-k classroom, we select a target one character at a time, and we do activities weekly using that target. I am looking for art activities, things starting with that sound. Parents also recommend doing the same thing. As several weeks elapse you will increase the length of the sound song so that you will not mix letters and learn in turn. This work on the combination of sound and letter brings your child a great leap of early reading comprehension. Just because a child can sing an alphabet songs tends to forget that he does not mean that he knows his letter. Unless the written letter and the sound of the letter are taught at the same time, he simply knows the song.
I am a licensed language pathologist for 25 years. I specialize in early intervention speech and speech therapy for the majority of my career. My goal is to help parents who are concerned about their child's speech and language development by providing resources and information. I currently have a blog with other topics in the field of speech and language development.
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