Practice target sounds, especially the /a/ sound. The teacher first speaks and learners repeat words, discriminating between words with varying sounds after focusing on /a/. Letter cards are held up to show the symbolic representation of...

Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...