Beginning phonics

For some time Elisabeth has been working on letter-sound associations. Now she has most of them down, most of the time. (Quite curiously, in the process of learning the letter sounds, she started to forget some of the letter names and would only associate the sound with the character. So we've been working on linking all three together: character, letter name, and sound.)

Two days ago, Elisabeth surprised us. She had been using Starfall to explore onset blends (sh, ch, th, etc.) On the sreen was the word, "shop." She pointed to the word and distinctly said the sounds for short o, and p in succession! To this point she has shown mere letter-sound assocation. This was the first sign that she has shown of being aware of how sounds go together to make words.

What a delight to see her take this step!