Sound-Letter Review: Ready for Reading

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will review all your sound and letter skills. After this, you are ready for reading!

🌟 Let's Start

Look how far you have come! You started by listening to sounds around you. Now you can break words into sounds, count sounds, blend sounds, and match sounds to letters. You are ready to start reading! Let us review everything.

📚 New Concept

Your sound and letter skills:

1. Segmenting: Breaking words into sounds. dog → /d/ - /o/ - /g/

2. Counting: stop has 4 sounds.

3. Deleting: sand without /s/ = and

4. Substituting: cat → change /k/ to /b/ = bat

5. Sound positions: In pin: first = /p/, middle = /i/, last = /n/

6. Blending: /r/ - /e/ - /d/ = red

7. Alphabet: 26 letters, 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u), 21 consonants

8. Letter sounds: Each letter makes a sound. b = /b/, s = /s/, etc.

How reading works: When you see a word like cat, you:

1. See the letters: c - a - t
2. Say the sounds: /k/ - /a/ - /t/
3. Blend the sounds: cat!

That is reading! And you are ready to do it!

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Break the word fun into its three sounds.
2. Blend these sounds: /b/ - /i/ - /g/. What word?
3. What letter makes the /s/ sound? What letter makes the /m/ sound?

Click to see answers

1. fun = /f/ - /u/ - /n/
2. /b/ - /i/ - /g/ = big
3. The letter s makes the /s/ sound. The letter m makes the /m/ sound.

💡 Remember

You are ready for reading! You know how to hear sounds in words and you know what sounds the letters make. Next, you will start reading real words. Congratulations!