Emphasizing the Need to Know Sounds

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village and we'll be looking at correcting common problems in children. What young readers need to know. Can they identify sounds in spoken language? If we used our alphabet posters, if we took the time with phonemic awareness, if we asked them to look at our mouths and try to practice by how we're making sounds, they should be able to identify sounds in spoken language. And how to identify and make first and ending sounds in a word. We've just spent a lot of time learning to keep changing, turning the page, what's the next word, the next? We take a lot as adults that it's easy and we forget that these are concepts that are difficult for children to understand. It's the basis of reading. How to turn the page, page by page. What word comes next? What comes last? Even in a word, this is the beginning sound and in this case we're blending the ending sound. P-op. First and last. We have to point out almost every little detail that we take for granted but we don't do it all at once, just a little bit here and there, we just sprinkle every book with just a little bit and it helps. How to blend sounds as we've looked? B-at."