I’m currently taking a course entitled Ready, Set, Read trying to get ideas on how to teach ds5 to read or improve his reading, if, as dh and I suspect, he’s already reading. The most recent lesson focused on phonemic awareness, or letter-sound relationships. Have any of you done this? Is it really necessary? If you have done it, what sort of games have you played? We’re already using word families, but that doesn’t work 100% of the time. I’m thinking we may need to start clapping out syllables and play some games with refrigerator magnets in which one of us makes a word, he reads it, then I change either the first or last letter and he has to read the new word. Any input, ladies?
Karen
