Phonological awareness* – “Lovely little lamb” and a lizard that can swim … to teach the letter “l”.
/l/ is for “lovely little lamb”, lizard (a water dragon, a lizard that swims) and lions. Onomatopoeia, like “lovely little lamb”, is important in developing phonological awareness, the awareness of the sounds within words. Similarly, reading books with rhyme is a good way to both share the enjoyment of reading to a young a child and develop phonological awareness at the same time.
Keep making letter cards for each new letter as your child learns it and add it to his collection. Make up the words in the comic strips with them …
I feel that it is best to teach lowercase letters first because children will use them most. Capital letters can then be taught as they are needed. Make up cards with lowercase-capital pairs. Cut out any that your child is currently learning (Ll and Mm) so that he can keep them where he will see them often and can use them for reference.
* The terms phonological awareness and phonemic awareness are often used interchangeably. Technically, phonological awareness is a more general term. It includes things like rhyming and identifying syllables in words. Phonemic awareness refers to identifying and manipulating the individual phonemes in words. E.g. the phonemes in cat are /k/ /a/ /t/, in shop are /sh/ /o/ /p/, and in throw are /th/ /r/ /O/. (/O/ means the long sound of the letter “o”, its name.)
Click on the bottom right hand corner of each video to see it full screen. If you have trouble seeing the videos try l, Phonic Comic 1/20, id kid mid, Phonic Comic 1/21, Mm and Phonic Comic 1/22
Thanks to Zoodoo, Richmond, Tasmania (Trevor Cuttriss, owner/manager), for permission to film lions.
All illustrations for Phonic Comic books © A. H. M. Wherrett, 2004.
To see the other videos go to Videos for Children
Print the books easy 1-20, easy 1-21 and easy 1-22 back-to-back on A4 paper, cut across the centre on the line, assemble, fold and staple.
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