Acquiring 44 Sounds

Most ABC books teach 26 letters with 26 sounds, called a letter-to-sound format. In these books you will read something like, "A is for apple." In this instance the letter sound of 'a' does not matc

Imagine a group of children sitting quietly at their desks while the teacher draws the letter 'a' on the board. Then she turns to her class and says, "This is the letter 'a' and it says ' a ' (short

Did you know that young children hear sounds in languages (called phonemes) more clearly than adults? It's true. As children listen to and interact with those around them, they become familiar with th