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SAVE this to practice long sound of /o/.
“o_e” Pattern: The long /o/ sound appears when the letter “o” is followed by a consonant and then a silent “e” (e.g., home, bone, hope).
“oa” Pattern: The long /o/ sound is produced when “oa” appears together in a word, typically in the middle (e.g., boat, coat, road).
“ow” Pattern: The long /o/ sound is formed when “ow” appears, usually at the end of a word (e.g., snow, grow, throw). Note that “ow” can also represent a different sound (as in cow).
Open Syllable “o”: When “o” is in an open syllable (i.e., when the syllable ends with “o”), it often makes the long /o/ sound (e.g., go, no, so).
“oe” Pattern: The long /o/ sound occurs when “oe” appears, often at the end of a word (e.g., toe, foe, hoe)..
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You CAN teach your toddler to read IF you know how to teach them their phonics sounds and how to blend those sounds together into words.
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Ask and you shall receive! Here is the slowed down version of pronouncing all of the letter sounds.
Please keep in mind that you don’t need to ever be PERFECT when saying the sounds (I’m certainly not.) It’s just about doing your best to trim off the extra “uh” sounds that we tend to add to the sounds without even realizing it.
Hope this helps you and your little ones!
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One little letter can completely change a word!
If you’re supporting a child who is learning to read, this is a great game for practising one of the most important spelling patterns — often called Magic E or Silent E.
The best part? It takes just a couple of minutes to set up using things you probably already have at home.
To play:
✔ Draw a simple race track
✔ Write a short vowel word in each space
✔ Write an e on a popsicle stick
✔ Use UNO cards to decide how many spaces to move
✔ Read the word you land on
✔ Add the e and read the new word
✔ First to the finish wins!
For example:
cap → cape
Before adding the e, the vowel makes its short sound:
a = /a/ as in apple
After adding the e, the vowel says its name:
a = “ay” (the letter name A)
The same thing happens with:
kit → kite
hop → hope
cub → cube
pin → pine
This pattern helps children read and spell hundreds of words, so it’s well worth practising.
Words you could include:
cap → cape
tap → tape
mad → made
kit → kite
bit → bite
pin → pine
hop → hope
cop → cope
not → note
cub → cube
tub → tube
cut → cute
Want to extend the learning?
💡 Ask your child what changed when the e was added.
💡 Challenge them to think of another word that follows the same pattern.
💡 Let them create their own race track using new Magic E words.
Simple.
Screen-free.
Uses materials you already have at home.
And takes just a few minutes to set up ❤️
Save this one for a busy afternoon when you need learning that feels like play.
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For those who might be new to this ‘learning to read’ world that our little legends eagerly explore, here’s some things that might help you understand what us crazy teachers are talking about! Sorry it’s so long! In my head - this all makes sense, but knowing me, I’m sure I’ve explained something here wrong 😑 🥲 😂
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We love seeing letter activity inspo from teachers! Creating a variety of ways to interact with letter practice is fantastic for engaging learners in a lesson together, and helps support:
🌟 Multiple learning styles
🌟 Independent work
🌟 Interactive learning
🌟 Future lesson activities
Take this “Letter of the Day” activity as an example. It supports visual learners by itself, and the activities it lays out support kinesthetic learners. Discussing the activities with students as they complete them together engages the auditory learners, while also creating an opportunity to reinforce phonic learning by connecting the letter with the sound it makes.
What are some of your favorite letter practice activities? Share with other teachers in the comments! 🤩
Am I the only toddler parent who didn’t know this?!
I know parents of kids in school will already be aware of this but just passing on to first time parents of babies and toddlers in case you guys are thinking about teaching the alphabet. 🥰
A few months ago, shortly after Noa turned 3, I discovered an American teacher on Instagram called Spencer Russel. He explains how we can actually teach 2-3 year olds to read using phonics.
Learning individual letter sounds helps children to start blending these sounds together to make words. So I began using flash cards to teach Noa what each letter of the alphabet sounds like. You can make your own using a pen and paper/card, I got mine from @soundsfunresources and they’ve really helped keep Noa engaged. She actually wants to play with the cards and is excited to spend 5-10 minutes every other day learning the sounds.
Follow Spencer @toddlerscanread as well, his Instagram and video tutorials are fascinating. To think one day Noa will be reading a book by herself is crazy as it only feels like yesterday she was a newborn and I was reading to her in my nursing chair. 💔
There’s loads of free resources online too that you can download to help teach your little ones, just google ‘phonics sounds’. If you’ve any other tips for teaching toddlers to read, please share them below. xx
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Imagine you’re teaching someone to cook for the first time and want them to learn how to cook an egg. There are a million ways to cook an egg: you can scramble it, fry it, soufflé it, etc. But if they’re just learning how to cook and are brand new to eggs, you’d probably overwhelm them if you tried to teach them everything at once, right? Plus, they probably wouldn’t do any of it well with so many different recipes and rules floating around in their head.
So what do we do instead? We start with the basics. We make sure they know how to scramble an egg and that they’re confident with the easiest and most common dish before we move on to teaching the harder and less common ones.
And in terms of vowel sounds, you certainly can teach both at once. But like the cooking analogy, you may leave your child overwhelmed, confused, and not understanding any of the sounds very well.
This is why I recommend mastering the basics (short vowel sounds) first before moving on to the more advanced stuff (long vowel sounds) after.
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