Beginning Readers!

So now your child knows at least one sound for each letter (short vowel sounds), and you have worked on phonemic awareness like in my last post NOW you can have them start sounding out words.  At first only use words that have that short vowel sound the short vowel sounds are as follows
A as in Ant
E as in Elephant
I as in Igloo
O as in Octopus
U as in Umbrella
So if you have taught them that I sounds like I as in igloo then try to get them to read ice they are going to be really confused.  Ice may be a short word but it has the Long Vowel Sound and there is a silent E so this is way too hard at first for them.
All the words they read at first should be as follows:  Consonant, Vowel, Consonant. I like to call this a CVC word.  If you want you can introduce some basic sight words as well (the, a, and, or), sometimes I introduce some words that start with vowels as well, as long as they are only 3 letters and have the same letter sounds as your child has worked on.  I went through the whole alphabet and tried to come up with all sounds with this pattern with the right sounding letters and I will post all those words here for you if you want some ways to use these words then email me and I can send you some templates I have made.
There are some great books out there that start with these CVC words but they can get pricey so if you want just take a look at this list of words and I am sure you can come up with a fun little book you and your child can make together with these words to help them be excited about reading it.  Color the pictures together and make the story as silly as you want just have fun!

Here is my word list (it is a little long, lol): I can't  find some of the words these are only those that start with smatbhcgrekdlfi,  I will try to find my words that start with jnopquwvxyz I seem to have misplaced them but these should get you started!

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