Teaching Letter Sounds Before Letter Names. Start with concrete concepts and, only after mastering those, introduce their complimentary abstract concepts. My all time favorite activity for practicing letters (and sight words too) is (7) fiddle sticks.
Furthermore, studies have shown that teaching the phonics letter sounds is far more important than teaching the names, and at the same time, it is more beneficial to have the child learn phonics sounds together with the names. My all time favorite activity for practicing letters (and sight words too) is (7) fiddle sticks. (download a list of phonetic letter sounds here.) because we don’t.
After the direct teaching activity, have your student choose one of the 5 letter/sound games.
Cut apart the pages and staple together on the far left. Should we teach letter names or letter sounds to beginning readers? If they are taught letter names before letter sounds, beginning readers will expect vowel letters to represent a long vowel sound in words, reading, for example, ‘got’ as ‘goat’. Many might think that phonics, the teaching of reading through the sounding out of individual letters, was the definitive answer to previous sight reading methods.