Letter Sounds Before Letter Names

Tradition emphasizes letter naming first in the teaching of reading.

Letter sounds before letter names. Taught the names of letters to avoid students confusing letter names and sounds. For example, the learner looks at a word and thinks of the names of the letters instead of the sounds. To learn to read and decode effectively, a young child must learn and master the letter sounds in english.

The names of the letters are likely to be recalled by the song, so children know them long before the sounds are introduced. Should we teach letter names or letter sounds to beginning readers? The phonic approach encourages us to directly link letters (graphemes) to sounds (phonemes), and to teach children pure sounds like ah , b , k when.

True, knowing letter names without knowing sounds means children are not ready to learn to read (and in my post i do state that children need to know letter sounds). Knowledge of letter names can interfere with successful decoding. Knowing the names of letters is not necessary to read or write.

When determining order of presentation, consider the frequency of occurrence in english words and introduce the most commonly encountered letters/sounds before the infrequent letters. Well, that sounds nothing like /d/ /o/ /g/ dog. In montessori, in contrast, we start literacy by teaching sounds exclusively.

Follow this method with all 26 letter sounds. Confusable letters are those with similar features, sounds, or names, or differentiated only by orientation, like ‘b’ and ‘d’. Letter names are syllables, with a vowel attached at the beginning or end of the name:

So make sure you don’t miss out on a week. It’s also true that just because a child can recite the alphabet does not mean he understands it. Although it is sometimes advised to leave the teaching of letter names until after the sounds of letters have been learned, it makes sense to teach letter names early in the phonics program.