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Letter/sound recognition on the printed page

There have been many weeks since I last wrote about reading skill development. Students should be very comfortable with letter recognition and sound patterns after a month. However, recognizing the letters on printed pages is oftentimes more difficult. While you are sharing reading with your student, now is the time to ask the learner to identify letters on the page you are reading. "Can you point to an S on this page?" "Do you see an M where we are reading?" "Point to an H at the beginning of a word." After several opportunities to practice the skill, it should be fairly clear whether the student is comfortable or not. If more skill development is necessary, it is time to continue to work on isolated letter names and sounds. Make up games using the names of letters and their sounds to provide additional practice for the learner.
Find all the capital A's on this page. Look for lower case P. How many did you find? Go on a letter walk. Find everything you can that starts with the letters G or T. Jump up and down when you see something that starts with W. Raise your hands when you see something that starts with the sound of B. Touch your nose when you see something that starts with the sound of D.
Learners that have already conquered the letter names and sounds will be ready for finding words on the page that start with specific letters or s0unds. "Can you find a word that starts with F?" "Point to a word that ends with a K." If the reader can also say the word, provide the practice time to read words that start with specific letters and sounds. Once the reader is able to handle the letters and sounds at mastery level, it is time to move on to vowel sounds. I will discuss the introduction of vowels to readers in our next visit.