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Post by Hariet on Mar 23, 2005 10:07:59 GMT -5
My daughter is 3.5 years old and we are on lesson 2. The progress has been surprisingly smooth and she can sound out all the words in lesson 1 & 2 except "rat".
Does letter "r" has two sounds? "r" and "er" the "e" should be upside down for the second sound, but I can't type that way. Her leap frog products teach "r" says "er" only. But when she use "er" "a" "t", it really doens't sound like "rat". Then she starts to guess randomly - Mom, Mat. We also have your CD, but I choose not to use it with her now. I think the Bunny in your CD sounds the "r" as "r". Is it official that "r" has two sounds, leap frog just forgot the "r". For other letters, her leap frog liabrary teachs both sounds. Like i says "i" and "ai".
Hope my question make sense. Thanks.
Harriet
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Post by Charan Langton on Mar 29, 2005 20:45:44 GMT -5
The most common sound of r is as a clean "r" as at the start of rat. The other er is sound usually not found at the begining of words. You need to teach only the first sound, the second one will come naturally.
But, here is the important point, let her say it any way she can, as long as she recognizes the word. Lesson 2 is too soon to expect her to be able to say and read these sounds correctly. Some allowance has to be made for guessing which she will continue to do for a while.
Don't labor on saying the sounds correctly. It is not as important as it is made out to be. Kids the world over say letter sounds in a variety of non-standard ways and yet can still read the word correctly. The idea behind phonics is that letters have a sounds. But this sound is often heard and said by each child differently.
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