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Posted: 31 July 2007 at 8:23pm | IP Logged

My 6 year old is coming along slowly with his reading. He now knows all the sounds and is  beginning to sound out bigger words.

How do you teach vowels? Especially when there are two together ie goat, train...when you only pronouce the first vowel. If that makes sense.

I am stuck!

Posted: 31 July 2007 at 9:22pm | IP Logged

At my los school they teach phonics and they learn all of the sounds of letters with actions attached so they get used to doing it that way and with the funny vowel ones its the same. Elc do books and flash cards that are called jolly phonics that are good

example the oa in goats is someone puting their hand to their mouth going oh as the oa sounds in goat or boat and ai is someone cupping their ear as if they cant hear saying ai

Im not explaining this vey well sorry. google phonics and im sure you will get some info 

Good luck xxx

Posted: 31 July 2007 at 9:58pm | IP Logged

we do word lists -oa, boat , coat, throat etc and play rhyming sentences/lotto with similar rhymes

'the boat wore a coat' and get the children to do pics of these

jolly phonics can be detremental if your child gets stuck on saying the character each time

why not ask at your childs school-each place does it differently but theres recently a new gov initiative out for phonics called-letters and sounds 

Posted: 01 August 2007 at 5:30am | IP Logged

Thanks Ladies.

We have recently just started at a new school here. So my concern was they hadn't properly covered vowels at his pevious school and they had already covered them here.

School doesn't open here till the 4th of September so I am trying to do activities at home with all 3 just to keep us busy and because it is to darn hot to go out!

I will  orgainise a game rhyming of bingo and Lynie that web site is fab.

Is the new intiative a new way to teach letters and sounds? Where can I get more info?

Have a good day!